[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Workaround to Python 2.7 regression in locale.format(): it disallows trailing text after the format specifier.

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> Thanks Walter for this patch.
>
> By reading here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/bugs/875810
> and https://bugs.launchpad.net/update-manager/+bug/673297 you should just
> use locale.format_string(). This is as well backwards compatible (works in
> 2.6).
>
> With this change, good by me.

---
 extensions/cpsection/updater/view.py |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/extensions/cpsection/updater/view.py
b/extensions/cpsection/updater/view.py
index de50d8d..814658f 100644
--- a/extensions/cpsection/updater/view.py
+++ b/extensions/cpsection/updater/view.py
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ def _format_size(size):
         return _('1 KB')
     elif size < 1024 * 1024:
         # TRANS: download size of small updates, e.g. '250 KB'
-        return locale.format(_('%.0f KB'), size / 1024.0)
+        return locale.format_string(_('%.0f KB'), size / 1024.0)
     else:
         # TRANS: download size of updates, e.g. '2.3 MB'
-        return locale.format(_('%.1f MB'), size / 1024.0 / 1024)
+        return locale.format_string(_('%.1f MB'), size / 1024.0 / 1024)
-- 
1.7.3.2

>
> Regards,
>   Simon
>
> Acked-by: Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>
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Walter Bender
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