Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
>
>> -IGNORE_STRING, CHOICE_TRUE, CHOICE_FALSE = (n_("-ignore-"),
>> - n_("Is True"),
>> - n_("Is False") )
>> +IGNORE_STRING, CHOICE_TRUE, CHOICE_FALSE = (_("-ignore-"),
>> + _("Is True"),
>> + _("Is False") )
>
> OK, this is a good example of why n_() was used. Constants like this
> are set at import time, and are not evaluated each time through the
> code. So by using the no-op function, the strings are localized, but
> not eval'd at import time. Then in the code that uses them, you'd wrap
> references to them in the _() function, so that they would be
> localized like other strings at the time they are used.
I'm still not understanding why it matters. Whether you convert the string at
import
time or use time, the string gets converted to the same thing.
Should I revert the commit?
Paul
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