How can I use PHP's gettext in conjunction with python's gettext?

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How can I use PHP's gettext in conjunction with python's gettext?

I have an app that I'm migrating portions of to Django, but python and php have a different string format. E.g.

"Hello %1s" in php vs. "Hello {0}" or "Hello {name}" in python.

We'll be maintaining both apps for a while, but is there a way to use the python format in PHP or vice versa?

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PHP's gettext doesn't expand/substitute %s - this is done by output functions (e.g. printf). It also appears to be the case in Python.

Most importantly, in Python you can use %s to represent strings, see http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting

So you should be able to use %s-style strings in both.

chronos 2009-11-12 19:32:01

That's part of sprintf to order the arguments:http://php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php

dd 2009-11-12 19:42:17

you are correct - I've never used order specifiers, so wrongly assumed these do not exist :)

chronos 2009-11-12 19:58:22

Have you had a look at %s in Python?

chronos 2009-11-12 20:00:38

Yep, and I've used '%s' before, but then we'd lose ordering - which for us would be important - but it may work for some strings.

dd 2009-11-12 20:41:30

Can you specify string values in the order they are used in the format string, so as to avoid using ordering modifiers at all? I do not know if Django imposes any limits on that.An alternative solution could be to use $-style variables in-string in PHP - i.e. _("Hello $1!") - and to regex-replace all $([\d]+) occurrences to {\1} for Python. This would be inefficient and extra verbose, but other than that I can't see any other solution right now.

chronos 2009-11-12 22:18:01

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Would something like this php PECL extension help you?

http://pecl.php.net/package/python

Regards.

mediaslave 2009-11-12 19:46:20

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