13.5 Translation
In many of the contributed apps, you will discover the existence of the locale/ directory. In the code of these apps, you will furthermore run into code that looks like _('a string value'). Both the directory and the -() function are part of Django’s translation framework.
The -() is actually a shortcut for the ugettext() or ugettext_lazy() functions. You may discover this by looking at the imports of the files using the -() convention, shown in Example 13.10.
Example 13.10: Python Code
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
Both ugettext() and ugettext_lazy() mark a string for translation. The translation framework will take all these strings and allow a person to translate them. ...
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