[Zope-dev] zope.18n:translate() keyword arguments versus MessageID attributes

[Christian Theune]

On 10/29/2010 08:26 AM, Michael Howitz wrote:
> Am 27.10.2010 um 08:52 schrieb Christian Theune:
>> On 10/27/2010 08:44 AM, Michael Howitz wrote:
> [...]
>>> +1 But the `mapping` attribute should update the existing mapping of the message ID as this would allow to have a partial mapping stored on the message ID and add the other part when translating.
>>
>> Does this use case really appear that often?
>
> I think of it as low hanging fruit.

You're probably right.

>> I see that there isn't much danger to doing that as the mappings
>> shouldn't be too large anyway and the code that processes them doesn't
>> allow for control structures based on their values so having superfluous
>> values wouldn't hurt and this behaviour would keep old code working.
>>
>> OTOH can you make a feature request for this so I can deal with it
>> separately?
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope.i18n/+bug/668189 (Did not find out how to make a feature request, so filed it as bug.)

Make a bug and mark it wishlist. I've done that for your.

Christian

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