[Python-ideas] Fix the DRY problem (was Re: PEP 501 - i18n with marked strings)

[Barry Warsaw]

On Aug 13, 2015, at 10:04 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:

>For internationalization, the gettext.gettext translation call could be added
>in one place, where the string is passed to tk, rather than 80 places in the
>structure definition.  An altered version of the menudefs walker could be
>used to collect the menu strings for translation.

That would require being able to translate non-literals.  I'd need the same,
and it would be okay if the translation call were spelled less conveniently,
as long as it's possible to both extract and translate the source strings.

Cheers,
-Barry
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