Looking for best practice advice on what string substitution
technique to use when using gettext(). Or do all techniques apply
equally?
I can think of at least 3 string techniques:
1. Classic "%" based formatting:
"My name is %(name)s" % locals()
2. .format() based formatting:
"My name is {name}".format( locals() )
3. string.Template.safe_substitute()
import string
template = string.Template( "My name is ${name}" )
template.safe_substitute( locals() )
The advantage of the string.Template technique is that a
translated string with with an incorrectly spelled variable
reference can still yield a usable string value while the other
techniques unconditionally raise an exception. The downside of
the string.Template technique appears to be the inability for one
to customize how a variable is formatted (padding, justification,
width, etc).
Malcolm
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