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i18n without gettext: JSON translations with dot keys

Quieres que tu app hable español e inglés. Buscas cómo, y el ecosistema te empuja a gettext o Babel: ficheros .po , un paso de compilación a .mo , herramientas de extracción. Potente, sí. Pero para una app pequeña o mediana es un peaje que no querías pagar — solo necesitabas un t() honesto. Lo resolví tantas veces que lo empaqueté: dotkey-i18n , Python puro, sin dependencias. Tus traducciones son…

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A Python library called dotkey-i18n has been created to simplify internationalization for small to medium-sized applications. It allows translations to be stored in JSON files, which can be easily edited, and supports multiple languages. The library provides features such as fallback to a default language, navigation of nested JSON keys, and interpolation of variables.

It is framework-agnostic and can be used with various frameworks such as NiceGUI, Flask, and FastAPI. The library is available on GitHub and can be installed via pip.

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