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django translation ngettext not working with gettext in the same file

this is my setup to generate translations for both singular and plurar text

from django.utils.translations import ngettext as _
from django.utils.translations import gettext

num = 3
my_plural_string = _("{num} apple", "{num} apples", num).format(num=num)
my_single_string = gettext("this is a text")

When using ngettext and gettext in the same file the generated .po file doesn't include the msgid_plural attribute for the first string

#: .\test_app\test_translation.py:10
msgid "{num} apple"
msgstr ""

#: .\test_app\test_translation.py:11
msgid "this is a text"
msgstr ""

I don't understand what is the problem in this code? Do I need to manually add the msgid_plural to each plural form of the strings ?

Solution

  • You can't alias ngettext as _. Only functions with single argument (gettext or gettext_lazy) can be aliased as _ as stated in documentation. The reason is how xgettext (GNU gettext tool) works.