LOCALE_PATHS needs "," at the end of the locations

[Stefano Vettorazzi Campos]

I have wrote it in settings.py:

LOCALE_PATHS = (
    "/home/ubuntu/.../locale"
)

But translation didn't work.

Then I have wrote:

LOCALE_PATHS = (
    "/home/ubuntu/.../locale/",
)

And it works.

It took me one day for me to realize! HaHaHa

[Claude Paroz]

The documentation tells clearly that it's a tuple.
​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/settings/#locale-paths

Now it's about knowledge of Python syntax, a tuple containing only one element must end with a comma.

[Stefano Vettorazzi Campos]

Ok. Sorry.
Thank you!

[anonymous]

Django could easily check if passed element is atleast iterable to avoid such troubles (it also took an hour of debugging from me since django does not provide any information with locale paths is it using ATM).

[FunkyBob]

As much as this is a fundamental Python syntax issue, the django devs have set a precedent in protecting users from this issue.

In the Settings class, there is the following:

    # Settings that should be converted into tuples if they're mistakenly entered
    # as strings.
    tuple_settings = ("INSTALLED_APPS", "TEMPLATE_DIRS")

[Ramiro Morales]

I don't think we should be adapting the Django code hand-holding users with basic Python concepts like these for every setting. IIRC I've read one core developer (In a ticket comment? in a mailing list post? in IRC?) regretting introduction of the feature FunkyBob points to (#88/r213): autoimatic fixing of invalid setting values. See also: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/15094#comment:3

I'm closing this ticket for the reasons given above