[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] PEP 30XZ: Simplified Parsing

[Barry Warsaw]

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On May 3, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Barry Warsaw writes:
>
>> The problem is that
>>
>> 	_("some string"
>> 	  " and more of it")
>>
>> is not the same as
>>
>> 	_("some string" +
>> 	  " and more of it")
>
> Are you worried about translators?  The gettext functions themselves
> will just see the result of the operation.  The extraction tools like
> xgettext do fail, however.

Yep, sorry, it is the extraction tools I'm worried about.

> Teaching Python-based extraction tools about it isn't hard, just make
> sure that you slurp in the whole argument, and eval it.  If what you
> get isn't a string, throw an exception.  xgettext will be harder,
> since apparently does not do it, nor does it even know enough to error
> or warn on syntax it doesn't handle within gettext()'s argument.

IMO, this is a problem.  We can make the Python extraction tool work,  
but we should still be very careful about breaking 3rd party tools  
like xgettext, since other projects may be using such tools.

- -Barry

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