n00b question on spacing

[Dave Angel]

On 06/22/2013 07:12 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Rick Johnson
> <rantingrickjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>    _fmtstr = "Item wrote to MongoDB database {0}, {1}"
>>    msg = _fmtstr.format(_arg1, _arg2)
>
> As a general rule, I don't like separating format strings and their
> arguments. That's one of the more annoying costs of i18n. Keep them in
> a single expression if you possibly can.
>

On the contrary, i18n should be done with config files.  The format 
string is the key to the actual string which is located in the 
file/dict.  Otherwise you're shipping separate source files for each 
language -- blecch.

The program that's intended to be internationalized is written using 
"programmereze" strings.  That's a strange inhuman language that's only 
approximately comprehensible by the developer and close associates. 
Then that gets translated into a bunch of language-specific config 
files, with English probably being one of them.

-- 
DaveA