[Python-ideas] PEP 501 - i18n with marked strings

[Petr Viktorin]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
> On 8/10/15 4:31 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I haven't done i18n recently, so bare with me.  I'm not sure about bolting
>> this on to "format strings", in that it feels like an orthogonal concept.
>>
>> However, what if we had i18n strings as well, not instead of:
>>
>>     i'Hello there, $name {age}.'
>>
> You haven't said what this would *mean*, precisely.  I18n tends to get very
> involved, and is often specific to the larger framework that you are using.
> Most people have adopted conventions that mean the syntax is already quite
> simple for strings to be localized:
>
>     _("Hello there, {name}").format(name=name)
>
> What would i"" bring to the table?

Not having to repeat the variable name three times.