Question

I’m a beginner in Python. My problem is pretty simple. I have a string to be localized in a python application containing parameters :

print _('Hello dear user, your name is ') + params['first_name'] + ' ' + params['last_name'] + _(' and blah blah blah')

This actually does the job, but is not really what I would call a nice way to do it. Not to mention that some languages would, for example, require the last name to be displayed before the first name.

Is there a better way to do it ? I thought about placing custom tags like {{fn}} or {{ln}} in the translation string and replacing them by the actual values before displaying the string. But it seems not to be really more pleasant.

Thanks,

Pierre

Answer 1

I’d suggest

print 'Hello dear user, your name is %(first_name)s %(last_name)s' % params