[Python-Dev] The "i" string-prefix: I18n'ed strings

[Barry Warsaw]

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 11:48 -0400, Martin Blais wrote:

> - This implies that we would have to introduce some way for these
> strings to call a custom function at runtime.

Yes, definitely.  For example, in Mailman we bind _() not to gettext's
_() but to a special one that looks up the translation context, find the
string's translation, then does the substitutions.

So this is one difficult sticking point with the idea.

-Barry

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