Dennis v0.3.5 released!

, Will Kahn-Greene | share this (mastodon)
Note: This is an old post in a blog with a lot of posts over a long span of time. The world has changed, technologies have changed, and I've changed. It's likely this is out of date, the code doesn't work, the ideas haven't aged well, or the ideas were terrible to begin with. Let me know if you think this is something that needs updating.

What is it?

Dennis is a Python command line utility (and library) for working with localization. It includes:

  • a translator for strings .po files

  • a linter for finding problems in strings in .po files

v0.3.5 released!

0.3.4 fixed an issue with the linter so it skips fuzzy strings.

0.3.5 fixes the rules default for the linter so that it includes the malformed lint rules. It also adds detection of formatting tokens like {0] where it doesn't end in a curly brace. This kicks up a ValueError in Python:

>>> '{0]'.format(1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: unmatched '{' in format
>>>

If you're using Dennis---especially to detect errors in .po files before you push them to production---you should upgrade.

Talk like a pirate day!

Tomorrow, September 19th, is Talk like a Pirate Day. Dennis can help you celebrate with its built-in Pirate translator which works on .po files, but also works on any input from command line arguments or stdin.

Translate your HTML pages:

(cat < "$1" | dennis-cmd translate --pipeline=html,pirate -) > "pirate_$1"

Translate all your git commit messages with this hooks/commit-msg:

#!/bin/bash

# Pipe the contents of the commit message file through dennis to
# a temp file, then copy it back.
(cat < $1 | dennis-cmd translate - > $1.tmp) && mv $1.tmp $1

# We always exit 0 even if the dennis-cmd fails. If the dennis-cmd
# fails, you get your original commit message. No one likes it when
# shenanigans break your stuff for realz.
exit 0;

If you forget about this blog post, these two recipes are in the recipes section of the documentation. If you have other recipes, I'd love to hear about them!

Also, the Pirate! translator can always be improved. If there are improvements you want to make, please submit a pull request!

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