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authorMattias Loverot <mattias@stubin.se>2016-08-16 09:38:36 +0200
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2016-08-17 16:35:19 -0400
commit04f0c2ab39396a5b3002d7fe3e2b0648c63ac3cc (patch)
tree4f422421d27de26c71b6197f17ee59159b7dd74c
parent3db01b2d5824a885871502a940901e8e83c73fde (diff)
[1.10.x] Fixed #27069 -- Doc'd which gettext functions may be aliased as _.
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@@ -70,6 +70,16 @@ as a shorter alias, ``_``, to save typing.
global ``_()`` function causes interference. Explicitly importing
``ugettext()`` as ``_()`` avoids this problem.
+.. admonition:: What functions may be aliased as ``_``?
+
+ Because of how ``xgettext`` (used by :djadmin:`makemessages`) works, only
+ functions that take a single string argument can be imported as ``_``:
+
+ * :func:`~django.utils.translation.gettext`
+ * :func:`~django.utils.translation.gettext_lazy`
+ * :func:`~django.utils.translation.ugettext`
+ * :func:`~django.utils.translation.ugettext_lazy`
+
In this example, the text ``"Welcome to my site."`` is marked as a translation
string::