Discrepancy between pylupdate and Qt Linguist

[Detlev Offenbach]

Am 12.07.25 um 11:30 schrieb Phil Thompson:
> On 12/07/2025 10:22, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> I just tried the new pylupdate (actually just translation_file.py) and
>> must report, that the file generated by pylupdate and Qt linguist are
>> still different. pylupdate indents all context elements by 4 spaces
>> whereas Qt linguist does not indent them at all.
>>
>> Would it be possible to align the bahavior of pylupdate with Qt 
>> linguist?
>
> So Qt Linguist is inconsistent in its indentation?
Indeed it is. I tested it all the way back to Qt 6.2.x.
>
> It would require indenting the file "manually". At the moment it uses...
>
> https://docs.python.org/3.13/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html#xml.etree.ElementTree.indent 
>
Maybe indenting just the context_el with this method as if it were a 
root element and then write the top level stuff manually with zero 
indentation. Unfortunately I am not familiar with ElementTree to change 
this myself.
>
> Phil

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