New submission from Carmen Bianca Bakker <carmenbia...@fedoraproject.org>:

Although argparse contains translatable strings, translations for those strings 
do not ship with Python. This means that any program that uses argparse must 
separately translate argparse, which is a lot of duplicated work.

Moreover, if argparse is translated downstream, it is only translated against a 
single version of Python. If a user uses a different version of Python, there 
is no guarantee that the strings (and thus the translations) will be the same.

Shipping translations for argparse together with Python would solve this issue.

As a caveat, the translations cannot be in `/usr/share/locale` or equivalent. 
Users may have multiple versions of Python installed, so there would be a 
namespace conflict.

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messages: 342073
nosy: carmenbianca
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: argparse does not ship with translations
type: enhancement

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