Discrepancy between pylupdate and Qt Linguist

[Phil Thompson]

On 12/07/2025 12:58, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> Am 12.07.25 um 11:43 schrieb Phil Thompson:
>> On 12/07/2025 10:40, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> I'm not going to put effort into trying to match what is effectively a 
>> bug in Linguist.
> 
> It is not a bug. Indentation is only used to pretty print the file.
> The XML would still be valid without any indentation at all.
> Nevertheless, I put some (little ) effort into matching the pylupdate
> output. Please find the diff against the original (i.e. current stable
> PyQt 6.9.1) translation_file.py attached. I hope you will include it
> in PyQt 6.9.2.

Would 'level=1' passed to indent() do the same thing? It might be easier 
to send me pylupdate and Linguist versions of the same .ts file so I can 
see exactly what you mean.

Phil