makemessages doesn't recognize aliased gettext functions

[Julian Metzler]

When running manage.py makemessages, translation functions like ugettext_lazy are ignored when they are imported with a name other than their original name or _.

This will work as expected:

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy
my_string = ugettext_lazy("This will be recognized.")

This will also work:

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
my_string = _("This will also be recognized.")

But this will not:

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as lazy_
my_string = lazy_("This will not be recognized.")

This wouldn't be too much of a problem in many cases, but if you need to use more than one translation function in your code, this WILL be a problem.

[Claude Paroz]

That's the expected behavior. If you need several translation functions, use their full name in the code. And in the case you'd *really* need another function name, you have the possibility of creating a custom makemessages command and override the xgettext_options class attribute (new in 1.7) to include some more --keyword xgettext options.