Troubles with python internationalization

[Dan Stromberg]

On May 25, 10:46 am, Pascal Chambon <chambon.pas... at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> * code safety : it seems default python string formatting technics (%
> operator, .format() method) are normally used when one needs to
> substitute placeholders in translated strings. But the thing is : I DONT
> want my view to raise an exception simply because one of the
> translations has forgotten a damn "%(myvar)s" placeholder. The only
> quick fix I can think of, is to always use substitution through
> defaultdicts instances (and still, exceptions could occur if abnormal
> "%s" placeholders are found in the translated string).
> Are there some utilities in python, or frameworks like django,
>   to allow a safe string substitution (which might,
> for example, simply log an error if a buggy string si found)  ? Python's
> template strings' "safe_substitute()" won't fit, because it swallows
> errors without any notice...

For this one, you might check into pylint.  I've just recently started
using it, but I'm loving it.  I pretty much don't check things in
without first running them through pylint (and some unit tests) first
now.