[Zope-dev] zope.18n:translate() keyword arguments versus MessageID attributes

[Michael Howitz]

Am 27.10.2010 um 08:52 schrieb Christian Theune:
> On 10/27/2010 08:44 AM, Michael Howitz wrote:
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>> +1 But the `mapping` attribute should update the existing mapping of the message ID as this would allow to have a partial mapping stored on the message ID and add the other part when translating.
> 
> Does this use case really appear that often?

I think of it as low hanging fruit.

> I see that there isn't much danger to doing that as the mappings 
> shouldn't be too large anyway and the code that processes them doesn't 
> allow for control structures based on their values so having superfluous 
> values wouldn't hurt and this behaviour would keep old code working.
> 
> OTOH can you make a feature request for this so I can deal with it 
> separately?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope.i18n/+bug/668189 (Did not find out how to make a feature request, so filed it as bug.)


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