Debug console and gettext-enabled programs

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Yes, that's it. It appears our test doesn't look in __builtin__. We'll fix this in the next release. Thanks for reporting this problem!

Great, thanks! :)

Actually turns out we're trying to identify that _ is a gettext translator and overriding the default shell behavior of resetting _ only in that case. Contrary to what I thought, we are looking in __builtin__ correctly, but I think the problem is your translate_function is not being recognized. Can you show what it is set to?

For example, the following works for me:

__builtin__.__dict__['_'] = gettext.translation('test', '/Users/test', ['de']).ugettext

I'm looking at a different approach that doesn't try to narrow messing with it to only the gettext case, but I'm not sure it'll work so it would be useful to see what you've set as _.

Thanks for reporting this problem!

Well I'm using a custom function that wraps gettext with some logic... May I ask how you tell if _ is related to gettext? Maybe I can modify my code to trick Wing :)

We're expecting isinstance(_, types.MethodType) and isinstance(_.__self__, gettext.NullTranslations) (or _.im_self in Python 2). So you may be able to fake out Wing <= 7.0.2.0 by descending a class from gettext.NullTranslations and using a method in that class as the translator.

That said, I'm pretty sure we're just going to change this to override the default of setting _ to last value if _ was set at all (to anything). I think the rationale for the current implementation was to narrow the case where we mess with default shell behavior as much as possible, but arguably if code has _ defined it shouldn't be altered even if it's not gettext.