Marking translatable strings

[Fredrik Lundh]

Darrell <news at dorb.com> wrote:
> Wish there was a dictionary formatter that wouldn't throw a keyError when it
> was missing a value.

here's one:

import UserDict

class MessageTable(UserDict.UserDict):
    def __getitem__(self, key):
 return self.data.get(key, key)

messages = MessageTable({
    "spam": "Spam",
    "egg": "Egg"
})

print "%(spam)s %(egg)s %(bacon)s" % messages

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