Dennis v0.4 released! Tweaks to Python 3 support, overhauled linter, string-by-string lint rules ignoring

, 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 It's likely this is out of date, the code doesn't work, the ideas haven't aged well, or the ideas were terrible to begin with.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 linter for finding problems in strings in .po files like invalid Python variable syntax which leads to exceptions

  • a statuser for seeing the high-level translation/error status of your .po files

  • a translator for strings in your .po files to make development easier

v0.4 released!

v0.4 sports an overhauled linter. Instead of two rules ("malformed" and whatever the other one was), it now has a bunch of much smaller and more specific rules! Also, I renamed the rules so they are all numbered!

See the table of error/warning rules and their numbers here: http://dennis.readthedocs.org/en/v0.4/linting.html#warnings-and-errors

Additionally, dennis hits false positives for a variety of reasons. If you're doing a "keep the errors out of production!" kind of thing, then false positives can prevent locale files from making it. That sucks!

To alleviate this, dennis now allows you to tell it what to ignore in the extracted comments. What's an extracted comment? It's a comment in the .po file that starts with #.. You can specify the extracted comments with "context" or similar mechanisms depending on how you're extracting strings. You can tell dennis to skip specific rules or skip all the rules on a string-by-string basis.

Ignore everything:

#. dennis-ignore: *
msgid "German makes up 10% of our visitor base"
msgstr "A német a látogatóbázisunk 10%-át teszi ki"

Ignore specific rules (comma-separated):

#. dennis-ignore: E101,E102,E103
msgid "German makes up 10% of our visitor base"
msgstr "A német a látogatóbázisunk 10%-át teszi ki"

Ignore everything, but note the beginning of the line is ignored by dennis so you can tell localizers to ignore the ignore thing:

#. localizers--ignore this comment. dennis-ignore: *
msgid "German makes up 10% of our visitor base"
msgstr "A német a látogatóbázisunk 10%-át teszi ki"

I also tweaked some of the Python 3 support code because it looked at me funny.

Also, universal wheel!

For more specifics on this release, see here: http://dennis.readthedocs.org/en/v0.4/changelog.html#version-0-4-may-1st-2014

Documentation and quickstart here: http://dennis.readthedocs.org/en/v0.4/

Source code and issue tracker here: https://github.com/willkg/dennis

2 out of 10 people saw the Pirate translation on The Web We Want (Mozilla). Arrr!

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