How to translate a country list in a django views.py?

Question

I am using django and the standard internationalization package as showed in the : excellent marina mele tuto.

In a user's form on web and mobile i have to show a list of country names in the user's language.

To create the country list, i intend to use django-country it seems easy and well documented.

I could do one API, no template, to request the list of countries.

But How to translate this country list in the views.py ?

Any example would be welcome.

Thanks

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 03 '17 at 13:26

I assume you're talking about django-countries? You shouldn't need to do anything other than make sure that your user's language is activated translation.activate(language), which is also handled in Django's middleware if you're using i18n_urlpatterns. From there, it will use the builtin gettext machinery to retrieve the country name in the user's language.

You can use the country objects in a serializer with django_countries.serializer_fields.CountryField, or in a view with

from django_countries import countries
from django.http import JsonResponse

def countries_list(request):
    for code, name in list(countries):
        print(code, name)

    return JsonResponse({
        code: name for code, name in list(countries)
    })

Or however you like. In a template:

{% load countries %}
{% get_country 'BR' as country %}
{{ country.name }}

should work, as long as your user's language is activated.

In a template, it works perfectly. But i do not have template. As the code must run on mobile app & web, i code some API. Thank you — alvaro562003, May 03 '17 at 13:35

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 21 '20 at 14:45

In case someone is still looking for how to do it. It was pretty easy, in large part thanks to @slurms explanation and reading through the relevant docs (though it took me some time to find them). It's actually very straightforward.

First, you will need to add the necessary settings:

MIDDLEWARE = [
    ...
    'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware'
    ...
]
USE_I18N = True

Then get the language from your request or other parameter, and the translating can begin e.g.:

from django.utils import translation
from django_countries import countries


def foo_bar(language):
   translation.activate(language)
   return [(translation.gettext(country.name), country.code) for country in countries]

This is all you need!

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 03 '17 at 13:17

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You could take a look at django-modeltranslation, the library is used to do translation from your model data.

Otherwise if you want to translate a list of countries, you can construct a new list and use the builtin django translation tools on each item in the list.

answered May 03 '17 at 13:17

devo

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It seems good...i am looking for code examples to really understand – alvaro562003 May 03 '17 at 13:40

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 03 '17 at 14:27

Finally, i am using a simple array

TranslatedCountries = {
'france':   { 
                'en':   u'france',
                'fr':   u'france',
                },

'belgium':  {
                'en':   u'belgium',
                'fr':   u'belgique',
                },
'spain':    {
                 'en':  u'spain',
                 'fr':  u'espagne',
                },
'morocco':  {
                 'en':  u'morocco',
                 'fr':  u'maroc',
                },

}

and i access it:

try:
            CCC = TranslatedCountries[test_country.lower()][user_language.lower()]
        except :
            print "The country %s is not defines for the language %s" % (test_country.lower(),user_language.lower() )
            CCC = test_country

print CCC

I hope someone wil give us a simpler, faster and cleaner solution. Thanks you for you help. Al

How to translate a country list in a django views.py?

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