Question

What would be the best approach to do the following:

if lang=="en-US":
    chapter="chapter"
if lang=="fr-FR":
    chapter="chapitre"
# etc.

Essentially I’m looking for a mapping that would do something like:

lang = ['en-US', 'fr-FR', ...] --> chapter = ['chapter', 'chapitre', ...]

How would I accomplish this? Thank you.

Answer 1

I always use a dictionary for that.

langs = {
  "en-US" : "chapter",
  "fr-FR" : "chapitre"
}

test = langs['en-US']

But for translations, you should also consider gettext.