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kevin_thibedeau on Jan 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: New string formatting in Python

This breaks gettext translations:

  _(f"English {a} words {b} here {a}")

The interpolation is done before the string is passed to gettext which can't retrieve the translated string any more.

mixmastamyk on Jan 4, 2016 [–]

Correct, don't use it with i18n, the same as with any other string formatting.

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