Translations#

We use Weblate to manage PyPI translations across several languages. Visit the Warehouse project on Weblate to contribute.

If you are experiencing issues as a translator, please let us know by opening a translation issue on the Warehouse issue tracker.

Adding a newly completed translation#

Weblate will automatically add commits to a pull request as translations are updated.

When a translation reaches 100%, it should be added as a known locale and have it’s MO file (Machine Object file) compiled.

To add a new known locale:

  1. Check for outstanding Weblate pull requests and merge them if so.

  2. In a new branch for pypi/warehouse, add the new language identifier to KNOWN_LOCALES in warehouse/i18n/__init__.py. The value is the locale code, and corresponds to a directory in warehouse/locale.

  3. Commit these changes and make a new pull request to pypi/warehouse.

  4. In a new branch for pypi/infra, add the new identifier to the accept.language_lookup call in PyPI’s VCL configuration. The value is the IANA language subtag string for the locale.

    Note

    This value may differ from the identifier used for KNOWN_LOCALES, e.g. pt-BR vs pt_BR.

  5. Commit these change and make a new pull request to pypi/infra referencing your pull request to pypi/warehouse.

Marking new strings for translation#

In an HTML template, use the {% trans %} and {% endtrans %} tags to mark a string for translation.

In Python, given a request context, call request._(message) to mark message for translation. Without a request context, you can do the following:

from warehouse.i18n import localize as _
message = _("Your message here.")

Passing non-translatable values to translated strings#

To pass values you don’t want to be translated into translated strings, define them inside the {% trans %} tag. For example, to pass a non-translatable link request.route_path('classifiers') into a string, instead of placing it directly in the string like so:

{% trans %}
Filter by <a href="request.route_path('classifiers')">classifier</a>
{% endtrans %}

Instead, define it inside the {% trans %} tag:

{% trans href=request.route_path('classifiers') %}
Filter by <a href="{{ href }}">classifier</a>
{% endtrans %}

Marking new strings for pluralization#

To pluralize a translated string in an HTML template, use the {% pluralize %} tag to separate the singular and plural variants of a string, for example:

{% trans n_hours=n_hours %}
This link will expire in {{ n_hours }} hour.
{% pluralize %}
This link will expire in {{ n_hours }} hours.
{% endtrans %}

This is not yet directly possible in Python for Warehouse.

Marking views as translatable#

If a view’s renderer uses translations, you should mark the view as translatable by setting the has_translations option in the view’s configuration:

@viewconfig(
   route_name="sample.route",
   renderer="translatable_sample.html",
   has_translations=True,
)
class SampleViews: