Unable to load .mo files due to incorrect conversion of Locale to a List of language names #1037
Description
Description
The method "_locales_to_names()" from the "Translations" class (babel/support.py) does not correctly convert a given Locale to a List of language names.
Instead of calling str() on the parameter variable locales (note the -s), it is called on the module object locale (without -s) if the parameter variable locales is an instance of Locale (see code below) .
def _locales_to_names(
locales: Iterable[str | Locale] | str | Locale | None,
) -> list[str] | None:
"""Normalize a `locales` argument to a list of locale names.
:param locales: the list of locales in order of preference (items in
this list can be either `Locale` objects or locale
strings)
"""
if locales is None:
return None
if isinstance(locales, Locale):
return [str(locale)]
if isinstance(locales, str):
return [locales]
return [str(locale) for locale in locales]The 4th lowest line should read return [str(locales)] instead of return [str(locale)] (as in locale the module object).
As a result, the gettext.find() call in the load method of the Translations class does not return a valid .mo file path and therefore the translations cannot be loaded.