gettext() cannot find translations with plural forms

@loewis

BPO	18319
Nosy	@loewis, @warsaw, @Cito, @jwilk, @gbassiere
PRs	bpo-18319: gettext() can retrieve a message even if a plural form exists #19869
Files	test.mo

^{Note: these values reflect the state of the issue at the time it was migrated and might not reflect the current state.}

Show more details

GitHub fields:

assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2013-06-27.22:53:23.400>
labels = ['type-bug', '3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.7', 'library']
title = 'gettext() cannot find translations with plural forms'
updated_at = <Date 2020-09-18.20:39:10.360>
user = 'https://github.com/jwilk'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2020-09-18.20:39:10.360>
actor = 'cito'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2013-06-27.22:53:23.400>
creator = 'jwilk'
dependencies = []
files = ['30717']
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 18319
keywords = ['patch']
message_count = 3.0
messages = ['191967', '228601', '368346']
nosy_count = 6.0
nosy_names = ['loewis', 'barry', 'cito', 'jwilk', 'python-dev', 'Gilles Bassi\xc3\xa8re']
pr_nums = ['19869']
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'patch review'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue18319'
versions = ['Python 3.7', 'Python 3.8', 'Python 3.9', 'Python 3.10']

Linked PRs

gettext() cannot find translations for messages that have plural forms. I would expect that gettext(s) is equivalent to ngettext(s, s, 1) for such messages, as it is implemented in GNU gettext.

>>> import gettext
>>> with open('test.mo', 'rb') as mo: trans = gettext.GNUTranslations(mo)
... 
>>> trans.ngettext("egg", "eggs", 1)
'Ei'
>>> trans.gettext("egg")
'egg'

@martin

@martin can you comment on this please.

Hi there,

I worked on a patch for this issue (see attached pull request).

I would be happy to discuss it with people involved in gettext module maintenance but I'm not sure how to contact them. Is there a dedicated mailing list or an IRC channel or something? I've found i18n-sig but it has been inactive for 5 years...

Best regards
Gilles

gh-62519: Make pgettext search plurals when translation is not found (#…

pythongh-62519: Make pgettext search plurals when translation is not …

Merge branch 'main' into superfix

[3.12] gh-62519: Make pgettext search plurals when translation is not…

[3.11] gh-62519: Make pgettext search plurals when translation is not…

This is now fixed. Thanks! ✨ 🍰 ✨

Navigation Menu

Repository navigation

gettext() cannot find translations with plural forms #62519

Linked PRs

Metadata

Assignees

Labels

Projects

Milestone

Relationships

Development

gettext() cannot find translations with plural forms #62519

Description

Linked PRs

Activity

jwilk commented on Jun 27, 2013

BreamoreBoy commented on Oct 5, 2014

gbassiere commented on May 7, 2020

ambv commented on Jul 31, 2023

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

Labels

Projects

Milestone

Relationships

Development

Issue actions