[Python-Dev] PEP 215 redux: toward a simplified consensus?

[Martin v. Loewis]

Jeff Epler <jepler@unpythonic.dhs.org> writes:

> It means that you must audit not only your source code, but also your
> message catalogs, to determine whether information that is supposed to
> remain internal to a program is not formatted into a string.  Of course,
> it is fairly easy to do this audit by showing that the translated string
> doesn't contain substitution on any identifiers that the original string
> did not.

That specific test could be done automatically. In fact, GNU msgfmt
already performs the test for c-format strings; msgfmt.py should
probably learn about the common notations for string interpolation.

Regards,
Martin