[PyQt] Clarification requested on pylupdate5 input and .ts files

[Phil Thompson]

On 01/05/2014 9:50 pm, David Cortesi wrote:
> The pylupdate5 docs [1] do not make clear what inputs are essential in
> order to get .ts files out.
> 
> Does it require calls to translate() to be grouped in a
> retranslateUi() method as created by Designer output?
> 
> And/or does it look for calls to translate() by a particular name?
> 
> I am writing an app that I expect to have translated, not using
> Designer for  most widgets, and began writing code like this:
> 
>>   _TR = QCoreApplication.translate
>  > ...
>>        (chosen_path, _) = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self,
>>               _TR("EditViewWidget",
>>                      "Choose a file of OCR error
> words to mark",
>  >                    "File dialog caption"), ... )
> 
> In other words, giving translate() a different name, and casually
> embedding calls to it at the point where a literal string is used.
> Then I thought, hold on, will pylupdate be able to see that?
> 
> What is the expected or best practice for coding strings for
> translation?

It looks for tr() (and trUtf8()?). It's on the TODO list to be able to 
pass a command line flag to specify the name of additional names.

Phil