Django i18n not working on python files

Question

Hi guys, Django newbie here,

I'm using Django's i18n to translate my website.

My templates get translated just fine using the trans template tag

However, when I try to translate strings in my python files, for instance this form field's label:

from django.utils.translation import gettext as _

class RegForm(forms.Form):
    form_field = forms.CharField(label=_('My field'))

It does not get translated. The same page contains other template strings that do get translated..

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The solution is to use ugettext_lazy instead of gettext