How can I make list or set translatable using gettext?

Question

I have some structure in Python:

> gender=( ('0','woman'), ('1','man') )

I want to translate it before I will display it in Django template. Unfortunately, below solution doesn't work:

> from django.utils.translation import
> ugettext_lazy as _
> 
> gender=( ('0',_('woman')),
> ('1',_('man')) )

What shall I do to translate this? I read the docs, but I can't understand what I should do.

Answer 1

Try like this:

gender=( ('0',_('woman')), ('1',_('man')) )

When you import gettext:

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

you need to wrap the string in gettext function:

_('some_string')

If underscore is confiusing you, this is same as writing:

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy
ugettext_lazy('some_string')

but using _ is shorter.

After you have marked strings for translation call makemessages django command.