Opened 11 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#18731 closed Cleanup/optimization (fixed)

Document how to pass additional keywords to xgettext in makemessages

Reported by: Robin Jarry Owned by: nobody
Component: Documentation Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords: makemessages i18n gettext
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Hi there,

when doing translations for one of my projects, I noticed that none of the strings that I had identified as "translatable" in python files were gathered in PO files.

After some code browsing, I saw that the "makemessages" management command has a fixed set of --keyword arguments passed to xgettext.

It occurs that I don't use imports with their full name:

from django.utils.translation import ugettext

Nor with the standard "_" alias:

from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _

Because "_" is a dummy variable that I use a lot when doing tuple expansion with unused items (I do use "tr" because it does not mix with other of my stuff but that's not the point here)

It would be cool if the "makemessages" command could accept user defined keywords. I did a small patch myself that accomplishes this. Please take it in consideration :-)

Thanks in advance keep up the great work,

Robin

Attachments (3)

makemessages.patch (10.8 KB) - added by Robin Jarry 11 years ago.
Adds --extra-keyword to the makemessages command. (with docs and tests)
makemessages-master.patch (8.4 KB) - added by Robin Jarry 11 years ago.
Adds --extra-keyword to the makemessages command. (with docs and tests)
makemessages-1.5.x.patch (11.1 KB) - added by Robin Jarry 11 years ago.
Adds --extra-keyword to the makemessages command. (with docs and tests) [for django 1.5.x]

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Change History (23)

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by Robin Jarry

I forgot to explain some stuff about the patch :)

Basically, if you use the i18n functions like this:

from django.utils.translation import ugettext as tr, ugettext_lazy as tr_lazy

tr('some translatable string')
tr_lazy('some lazy translatable string')

You can generate/update the .po files with this command (run into the app directory and/or from the project root)

$ django-admin.py makemessages --locale=fr_FR --extra-keyword=tr --extra-keyword=tr_lazy

It will take all your translatable strings into account.

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@…>

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

In [c1684e3dcb2adf0fec8fd423cc73122330c268fe]:

Fixed #18731 -- Cleaned up split_exclude's use of can_reuse

The outer query's set of reusable joins (can_reuse) was passed to the
inner query's add_filter call. This was incorrect.

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by Anssi Kääriäinen

Resolution: fixed
Status: closedreopened

Wrong ticket number in commit message -- reopening.

comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by Łukasz Rekucki

Needs documentation: set
Needs tests: set
Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by Aymeric Augustin

Status: reopenednew

comment:6 Changed 11 years ago by Robin Jarry

Hello,

Could this patch be integrated in the next release? It is not a big change :)

Maybe I can help with something?

Thanks,
--Robin

Last edited 11 years ago by Robin Jarry (previous) (diff)

comment:7 Changed 11 years ago by Aymeric Augustin

It looks like the patch needs tests and documentation. Uploading a new diff against master with code, docs and tests changes would help.

comment:8 Changed 11 years ago by Robin Jarry

Hello,

I wrote docs and tests in a new patch against master. Tell me if I need to change something :)

Changed 11 years ago by Robin Jarry

Attachment: makemessages.patch added

Adds --extra-keyword to the makemessages command. (with docs and tests)

comment:9 Changed 11 years ago by Robin Jarry

Oops,

the patch I uploaded is not complete (missing sample files)
Here are 2 new patches (one for django 1.5.x and one for the master HEAD)

my bad :)

Changed 11 years ago by Robin Jarry

Attachment: makemessages-master.patch added

Adds --extra-keyword to the makemessages command. (with docs and tests)

Changed 11 years ago by Robin Jarry

Attachment: makemessages-1.5.x.patch added

Adds --extra-keyword to the makemessages command. (with docs and tests) [for django 1.5.x]

comment:10 Changed 11 years ago by Robin Jarry

I made a pull request on github :)

https://github.com/django/django/pull/959

comment:11 Changed 10 years ago by Tim Graham

Needs documentation: unset
Needs tests: unset
Patch needs improvement: set

Patch no longer applies cleanly (and docs need updating for the fact that this would go in 1.7).

comment:12 Changed 10 years ago by Robin Jarry

The patch has been reworked on the HEAD.

Here's a new pull request: https://github.com/django/django/pull/2311

comment:13 Changed 10 years ago by Robin Jarry

Patch needs improvement: unset
Triage Stage: AcceptedReady for checkin

Gentle bump.

I hope it is not too late for integration in 1.7 :-)

comment:14 Changed 10 years ago by Tim Graham

Triage Stage: Ready for checkinAccepted

You need someone besides yourself to review the patch in order to mark it RFC, thanks.

comment:15 Changed 10 years ago by Robin Jarry

oops sorry :-/

comment:16 Changed 10 years ago by Claude Paroz

Component: Core (Management commands)Internationalization
Needs documentation: set
Patch needs improvement: set
Type: New featureCleanup/optimization
Version: 1.4master

In my recent commit in makemessages ([06efeae598c6dafbe56d2ea323a0dccdd5bf2b8e]), I added an options list for various gettext commands at the Command level.

Therefore, the new way to solve this issue is to create a custom makemessages command in one of your project's apps, and complete the Command.xgettext_options list. I'm keeping this ticket open so as to add an example in the documentation.

comment:17 Changed 9 years ago by tkhyn

To people who - like me lately - would land here after a google search and want to add gettext extra keywords to Django < 1.7 without having to patch Django, you may want to use this management command override which will work with Django 1.6 and earlier. Or simply use the django-extra_keywords package.

It uses an approach that differs from what is suggested above, by monkey-patching popen_wrapper (>= 1.6) or _popen (< 1.6) in core.management.commands.makemessages and adding arguments to the command. A bit hackish, but it does the job.

comment:18 Changed 9 years ago by Tim Graham

Component: InternationalizationDocumentation
Needs documentation: unset
Patch needs improvement: unset

Berker created a documentation pull request as suggested by Claude.

comment:19 Changed 9 years ago by Tim Graham

Summary: "makemessages" management command should handle import aliasesDocument how to pass additional keywords to xgettext in makemessages

The patch looks okay to me, but Claude should review as well as I'm not a makemessages user.

comment:20 Changed 9 years ago by Tim Graham <timograham@…>

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

In cbd936d0f87cf5109d3ef67c07797c657912f424:

Fixed #18731 -- Added an example about customizing "makemessages" command.

Thanks claudp for the suggestion and review.

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