[GRASS-dev] [Issue] String formatting issue

[Nikos Alexandris]

* Sanjeet <edu.sanjeet at gmail.com> [2018-06-03 18:08:29 -0600]:

>Hi everyone,
>
>I came across this type error while porting libs.
>
>msg = _("Module run %s %s ended with error") % (module, code)
>TypeError: %b requires a bytes-like object, or an object that
>implements __bytes__, not 'NoneType'
>
>This uses % format specifier which sometimes fails on Python 3 because
>of strings and bytes differences.
>
>I can resolve this by using fomat() like this:
>msg = _(("Module run {} {} ended with error").format(module,code))
>
>Do you think this is a good way to resolve this?
>Is "format()" going to work well with translations using the
>''gettext()'' used as _() as shown in the above line?
>
>Thanks,
>Sanjeet

Normally everyone would want to follow the "new" style of formatting
strings, which offers many more options. Why stick to the old style,
i.e. using the % notation?

Cheers, Nikos
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