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Ruben Quinones
Ruben Quinones

Reputation: 2472

Translate url regex pattern for django internationalization

I am trying to set up a multi-language django site, I have added the languages I need in my settings file and translated everything in my django.po file. I added the locale middleware and language blocks to my urls and they display correctly when I navigate through them:

/es-mx/help --- displays in spanish

/en-us/help --- displays in english

Now I want to translate the urls, this is my urls.py:

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

urlpatterns += i18n_patterns('',
    url(_(r'^help/'), include('help.urls')),
)

I want to have the following:

/es-mx/ayuda -- displays in spanish

/en-us/help --- displays in english

But I only get 404s when going to the spanish url. I have tried adding the following in my django.po file with no results:

msgid "r^help/"
msgstr "r^ayuda/"

msgid "help"
msgstr "ayuda"

What am I missing?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 620

Answers (1)

Anentropic
Anentropic

Reputation: 33923

I think your msgid and msgstr are wrong here:

msgid "r^help/"
msgstr "r^ayuda/"

you've mistakenly included the r in front, but this is not actually part of the string of the url pattern...

notice that in the url pattern it is r"^help/" ...the r prefix tells Python this is a raw string and to ignore any escape chars, which is a useful thing when working with regular expressions

Everything else looks right to me, from my reading of the docs, so I think you just need to change them to:

msgid "^help/"
msgstr "^ayuda/"

Upvotes: 1

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