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How can I join lazy translation in Django?

I need to use lazy translation but also I need to make translation - how to deal with?

This code is doing what I need:

print ugettext_lazy('Hello world!')

Now I want join two lazy translations together and translate it separately (I now that will not work and why but want to have two translation strings).

print ugettext_lazy('Hello world!') + ' ' + ugettext_lazy('Have a fun!')

I can do such code but it generates more translation than is need.

print ugettext_lazy('Hello world! Have a fun!')

Is it possible to have two translation strings and lazy translation?

Solution

  • Since django 1.11 string-concat is deprecated, and format_lazy should be used instead

    from django.utils.text import format_lazy
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy

name = ugettext_lazy('John Lennon')
instrument = ugettext_lazy('guitar')
result = format_lazy('{} : {}', name, instrument)