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On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 08:42:42AM -0500, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 22:10 +0000, Taryma, Joanna wrote:
> > However, pep8 does not accept passing variable to translation
> > functions,  so this results in ‘H701 Empty localization string’ error.
> > 
> > Possible options to handle that:
> > 
> > 1)      Duplicate messages:
> > 
> > LOG.error(“<error message>”, {<key>: <val>})
> > 
> > raise Exception(_(“<error message>”) % {<key>: <val>})
> > 
> > 2)      Ignore this error
> > 
> > 3)      Talk to hacking people about possible upgrade of this check
> > 
> > 4)      Pass translated text to LOG in such cases
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I’d personally vote for 2. What are your thoughts?
> 
> When the translators go to translate, they generally only get to see
> what's inside _(), so #2 is a no-go for translations, and #3 also is a
> no-go.
> -- 

I think the appropriate thing here is to do something like:

msg = _('<error message>') % {<key>: <val>}
LOG.error(msg)
raise Exception(msg)

This results in a translated string going to the log, but I think that's
OK.