I opened T275981 for it. Best xqt
> Am 27.02.2021 um 14:27 schrieb Merlijn van Deen (valhallasw) > <valhall...@arctus.nl>: > > > Hi André, > > Looking at > https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot/blob/master/pywikibot/i18n.py#L6, it > sounds to me like in principe the core Pywikibot code should never call > i18n.*. > > There are currently a few places where this _does_ happen: > > * pagegenerators.py, which uses a fallback in case i18n data is not > available: > https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot/blob/master/pywikibot/pagegenerators.py#L641 > -- so these are OK. > * page/__init__.py calls twtranslate in: > 1) the cosmetic changes fallback. This one is a little difficult to fix -- > maybe it should fall back to a hardcoded English string in case i18n is not > available? > 2) the touch method. The method should probably require summary to be > passed as part of the method signature. The corresponding script > scripts/touch.py / scripts/newitem.py can then do the i18n lookup. > ... in principle, we could also just use a hardcoded summary and not > bother translating. After all, touch is supposed to not modify the text and > therefore the edit summary _shouldn't be visible_... > > Indeed the other approach would be to bundle a subset of i18n data with the > framework (these are all in scripts/i18n/pywikibot). However the loading > setup is a little bit complex due to the data being json files that could be > in a (zipped) Python package... > > Cheers, > Merlijn > > >> On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 14:30, André Costa <lokal.pro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm building a small pywikibot tool[1] which is designed to be installed via >> pip (and in turn installs Pywikibot via pip). >> >> The tool uses the page.touch() function which is where I get a >> pywikibot.i18n.TranslationError when I run it. >> >> page.touch() gets it's edit summary from i18n.twtranslate(self.site, >> 'pywikibot-touch') which in turn is defined in /scripts/i18n/pywikibot/. >> Unless I'm confused the Error occurs because the pip distribution does not >> include the /scripts folder or the i18n submodule. >> >> So my first question is am I just doing something obviously wrong and the >> i18n submodule should have been available over pip as well? >> >> If it's not just me then would it not make sense to have any i18n files >> necessary to the Pywikibot library to also be distributed via the same pip >> package? (i18n for scripts is another issue since for scripts you cannot use >> pip). >> >> Cheers, >> André / Lokal_Profil >> >> [1] https://github.com/lokal-profil/pywikibot-sdc >> André Costa | Chief Operating Officer, Wikimedia Sverige | >> andre.co...@wikimedia.se | +46 (0)733-964574 >> >> Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige. >> Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se >> >> ------ >> sent from my mobile, all typos are due to autocorrect ;) >> _______________________________________________ >> pywikibot mailing list >> pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikibot > _______________________________________________ > pywikibot mailing list > pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikibot
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