Trial translating messages with regex patterns

[StanFromIreland]

Unable to get a definitive answer from TX, I propose we trial this once and see how it goes. It should translate four strings in grp.po, which are currently untranslated in the unused German translation.

I have set it up to allow us to run multiple patterns, digits+whitespace, directives like :pep: which occasionally appear separate and in the future I would like to see an advanced codeblock filter, copying those that do not require translation per the translation style guide.

From TX, this should work in theory:

When uploaded to Transifex, these [auto-translations by the script] will appear as “translated” in the editor, and translators will be able to filter them out, focusing on untranslated content

[StanFromIreland]

Looking at the logs it seems to work correctly:

[library/grp.pot] Copied '0'
[library/grp.pot] Copied '1'
[library/grp.pot] Copied '2'
[library/grp.pot] Copied '3'

[rffontenelle]

To test this on Transifex, we can manually upload the changed POT file. Would you like to try this before moving on with review, merging etc.?

[StanFromIreland]

Sure, do you want to do it the easy way, and just upload the file made on my system, or, upload the pot as an artefact from the workflow?

[StanFromIreland]

Ah, it seems that there is a larger issue when tried via the web interface:

A non-empty msgstr was found on the entry with msgid '0'. Remove and try again

Which is interesting, I guess it must be different for the api, since the support staff did not mention it.

[rffontenelle]

I meant uploading POT file with the translation for a one-time test.

I ran your script locally (it indeed filled the msgid with the translation and then I tried to upload to Transifex via both web UI and CLI tool. Both failed with:

A non-empty msgstr was found on the entry with msgid '0'. Remove and try again

For instance, from CLI:

$ tx push -s -r python-newest.library--grp
# Getting info about resources

python-newest.library--grp - Done
[##############################] (1 / 1)

# Pushing source files

python-newest.library--grp - upload of resource 'o:python-doc:p:python-newest:r:library--grp' failed - parse_error: A non-empty msgstr was found on the entry with msgid '0'. Remove and try again
[##############################] (1 / 1)

[rffontenelle]

Which is interesting, I guess it must be different for the api, since the support staff did not mention it.

I bet they were talking about pushing translated msgstr from PO files, which is what the propagate_translations CI job at ci.yml does.

By the way, digits might be translated as in Japanese numerals.

[StanFromIreland]

I think I will just do this for Polish then.

[rffontenelle]

I see many strings consisting only of a single monospaced text (wrapped in double-backquotes). These seem to be a great candidate for your script.

Thanks and sorry for not being able to implement this. Eager to see it working on pl