i18n marking breaks choices in admin on being marked for translation

[kenneth gonsalves <lawgon@…>]

when i upgraded to the latest svn head (6022) from 5036, I found that all the places in admin that had dropdowns for choices were blank. I had always marked my choices for translation like so:

article_type = (
("NW", _("News")),
("FT",_("Features")),
)

now, this doesnt work - when I remove the _(), then the choices appear. I am using from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _. I have reported this in the mailing list, but now feel it is a bug.

[kenneth gonsalves <lawgon@…>]

if i use 'import gettext as _' everything works. 'import ugettext_lazy as _' also doesnt work

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

(In [6452]) Fixed a Python 2.3 Unicode + oldforms problem. Refs #5287.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

I can only duplicate this problem using python 2.3 and that's now been fixed.

If you are using 2.4 or 2.5 and it's still an issue, can you please reopen and give a small example demonstrating the problem. My test case so far has been this model (with _() bound to ugettext_lazy()):

CHOICES = (('a', _('a')), ('b', _('b')), ('c', _('c')))

class T5287(models.Model):
    type = models.CharField(max_length=5, choices=CHOICES)

    class Admin:
        pass

That displays correctly for me on current trunk (although not with python 2.3 prior to [6452]) and seems to follow your explanation of the problem.