I have a json file with a long list of geographic locations [ { "id": 1, "name": "Afghanistan", "iso3": "AFG", "iso2": "AF", "phone_code": "93", "capital": "Kabul", "currency": "AFN", "currency_symbol": "؋", "tld": ".af", "native": "افغانستان", "region": "Asia", "subregion": "Southern Asia", "timezones": [ { "zoneName": "Asia\/Kabul", "gmtOffset": 16200, "gmtOffsetName": "UTC+04:30", "abbreviation": "AFT", "tzName": "Afghanistan Time" } ], "latitude": "33.00000000", "longitude": "65.00000000", "emoji": "", "emojiU": "U+1F1E6 U+1F1EB", "states": [ { "id": 3901, "name": "Badakhshan", "state_code": "BDS", "cities": [ { "id": 52, "name": "Ashkāsham", "latitude": "36.68333000", "longitude": "71.53333000" }, ....... /* very long list */ This file is loaded in Django forms when country/state/city dropdown lists are needed. The problem is that I want to translate at least the country names to other languages. Even if I was allowed to use {% trans "Country_name" %} in my JSon file it wouldn't be very practical. Is there a faster way to do so? For example making this in forms.py doesn't work: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _ # ... def get_country(): filepath = 'myproj/static/data/countries_states_cities.json' all_data = readJson(filepath) all_countries = [('----', _("--- Select a Country ---"))] for x in all_data: y = (x['name'], _(x['name'])) all_countries.append(y) return all_countries "--- Select a Country ---" will be translated but x['name'] will not, because it seems that django-admin makemessages -l fr doesn't execute loops and doesn't not lookup into arrays. In short I have the same problem that I would have if I had to translate data coming from a database. For the database django_modeltranslation would be a solution. But how could I translate data coming from json files without have to manually edit the json file, wihch is extremely tedious and error prone? Continue reading...
