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neurix
neurix

Reputation: 4316

Python: TypeError: 'unicode' object is not callable, conflict with ugettext?

I am using the GeoDjango example with the class WorldBorder. My trouble is that I can't print out the name of the selected countries. When I try to execute

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
...
location = fromstr(... , srid=4326)
country = WorldBorder.objects.get(mpoly__intersects=location)
print _('User country determined to %s') %country.name

i get the error message:

Python: TypeError: 'unicode' object is not callable

When I remove the ugettext_lazy, everything works fine. How can I keep the translation option and make the string work?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1204

Answers (1)

tobych
tobych

Reputation: 2961

It looks like you're using a Python shell. There, _ will take the value of the last expression evaluated. So _ ends up being the WorldBorder instance after your third line. To avoid this problem, when you're playing with translate in a shell, alias ugettext_lazy to something other than '_'.

Upvotes: 5

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