On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 11:56 +1000, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 08:06 -0700, cArkraus wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I cant seem to get my (non-model-)forms datefield localized.
> >
> > Here's my first attempt:
> > some_date = fields.DateField(widget=widgets.DateInput(format=ugettext
> > ('%d.%m.%Y')))
>
> This would do the translation when the file is imported, which won't
> reflect the user's current locale. The working rule is that you don't
> use ugettext() outside of a view function (or something called directly
> by a view).
>
> > That's working fine, until the user switches his sessions language.
> > Then, the date is still shown in the format(ie. '%d.%m.%Y') and not
> > the correctly localized one(ie. '%Y-%m-%d').
> >
> > Now, if I change to ugettext_lazy() like this:
> >
> > some_date = fields.DateField(widget=widgets.DateInput
> > (format=ugettext_lazy('%d.%m.%Y')))
> >
> > I get a TemplateSyntaxError 'strftime() argument 1 must be string or
> > read-only buffer, not __proxy__'
>
> That's a bug in Django and Python (both sides share some blame: Python's
> string handling is retarded in cases like this and Django doesn't work
> around it correctly here). It's not particularly easy to work around it,
> either.
This came about ambiguously: without hunting down the offending place
right at the moment, I'm still fairly certain it's easy to fix this in
Django's core. I can't think of an easy way to work around it in Django
apps, however (that might be because I'm not imaginative enough).
Regards,
Malcolm
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