Using blocktrans with "with" and "count" keywords together

Question

Is it possible to use {% blocktrans %} with "with" and "count" at the same time?

The documentation describes only the separate using:

{% blocktrans with foo|filter as bar and baz|filter as boo %}
{% blocktrans count var|length as count %}

I need to print a value of one variable, and the translation depends on another variable. I tried the following code:

{% blocktrans count cnt as count with cnt|make_text_from_count as text_count %}
    and other {{ text_count }} city
{% plural %}
    and other {{ text_count }} cities
{% endblocktrans %}

It displays the value of a text_count variable, but does not translate text.

Python 2.6.6, Django 1.3, django-templates.

The problem was in "fuzzy" flag inside .mo file. – Gregory Mar 24 '11 at 13:07 — Gregory, Mar 24 '11 at 13:07

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 18 '14 at 13:20

Yes, it is possible. You just need to be careful with the order of the blocktrans arguments: with requires a local variable binding immediately after it, and count and its respective variable binding come after that.

The documentation (for version 1.5 at least) has a couple of pluralization examples. The second example (introduced as "A more complex example") shows the order when both with and count are used:

{% blocktrans with amount=article.price count years=i.length %}
That will cost $ {{ amount }} per year.
{% plural %}
That will cost $ {{ amount }} per {{ years }} years.
{% endblocktrans %}

If you don't need any other variables than the one for the counter, do not use the keyword with at all. This is shown in the documented first example above the more complex one:

{% blocktrans count counter=list|length %}
There is only one {{ name }} object.
{% plural %}
There are {{ counter }} {{ name }} objects.
{% endblocktrans %}

Bernhard Vallant · Answer 2 · 2011-05-10T17:39:43.450

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http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/internationalization/#blocktrans-template-tag

{% blocktrans with text_count=cnt|make_text_from_count count cnt=cnt %}
    and another city
{% plural %}
    and other {{ text_count }} cities
{% endblocktrans %}

edited May 10 '11 at 17:39

answered Mar 24 '11 at 08:41

Bernhard Vallant

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TemplateSyntaxError: "'count' in u'blocktrans' tag expected exactly one keyword argument.". And if I fix it, then we obtain the equivalent of my code, but with a different syntax. – Gregory Mar 24 '11 at 09:55
The singular case doesn't require {{ text_count }}, as text_count == 1 there. – Tomasz Zieliński May 10 '11 at 13:01
I've edited my answer, after `count` django of course expects another keyword argument... – Bernhard Vallant May 10 '11 at 17:40

Using blocktrans with "with" and "count" keywords together

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