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| author | Mattias Loverot <mattias@stubin.se> | 2016-08-16 09:38:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2016-08-17 16:34:54 -0400 |
| commit | 35ea6d83c8ecea76f49da26d6646c8d21936500f (patch) | |
| tree | 29f6c595dbbbed74f1f519b93942f324655d24c8 /docs | |
| parent | 49fcbe73c5004fd576b2aaed2c20b798cc878824 (diff) | |
Fixed #27069 -- Doc'd which gettext functions may be aliased as _.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt index e503e3a3d1..11b62ea4ac 100644 --- a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt +++ b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt @@ -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:: |