Code review comment for lp:~songofacandy/bzr/i18n

John A Meinel wrote:
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> > This is not a real issue, just a cosmetic one.
> >
> > The feedback I get is that developers prefer writing the shorter _() to a
> > translatable message than the longer and perhaps less readable gettext().
> > This has been the standard practice for nearly all localizable Open Source
> > projects I've seen. The only exception that I can think of off the top of my
> > head is bzr-gtk, where i18n() is used.
> >
> > Why is is an issue in bzr but not in all other Python projects that make use
> > of gettext?
>
>
> Because developers (such as myself) have a higher tendency to break into
> the debugger in the middle of an active session (because we trap SIGQUIT
> to do just that), and once you have done so _() breaks all future
> running of the program because the builtin _() gets overridden.

That's really a bug in pdb, though. It might be possible to monkey-patch