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pygettext: Seen unexpected token "%"

I am currently trying to implement internationalization in an application (Python 2.6) and have run into an error involving string formatting. A string marked translatable looks like this:

foo = _("I would like to have %d pounds of cheese" % amount)

Running pygettext on my source tree then complains when it hits this line:

$ pygettext .
*** ./foobar.py:45: Seen unexpected token "%"

The resulting messages.pot file does not contain the string after pygettext has done its work. What is the way to go for string formatting with gettext?

Solution

  • Translate the unreplaced string. Or replace on the translated string.

    foo = _("I would like to have %d pounds of cheese") % amount