[Python-Dev] Fwd: i18n (original) (raw)

Carl M. Johnson cmjohnson.mailinglist at gmail.com
Fri Aug 27 11:35:53 CEST 2010

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Anders J. Munch <ajm at flonidan.dk> wrote:

This could be done as a free-standing library, there's no reason to involve core CPython.  Just do message translation at a later stage, e.g. in a custom sys.excepthook.

It could be done as a free standing library, but if this idea gets traction, it might be nice to incorporate it into the standard library, so inexperienced Pythoneers wouldn't have to do anything more onerous than "import localizedexceptions" in their interactive console. Using easy_install or whatever to add a new module can be tough in, say, a school environment where you don't have control of the machines you are using. I suppose the sensible thing to do is to recruit people for an independent project first and see if it gains traction. If it does, then pull it into the standard library a few years down the road.

Incidentally, on the topic of translating keywords and such, it looks like one project to do so, Chinese Python, hasn't been updated since 2004: http://www.chinesepython.org/cgi_bin/cgb.cgi/news/news.html

I just don't think there's much demand for translating the keywords.

-- Carl Johnson

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