""" babel.lists ~~~~~~~~~~~ Locale dependent formatting of lists. The default locale for the functions in this module is determined by the following environment variables, in that order: * ``LC_ALL``, and * ``LANG`` :copyright: (c) 2015-2023 by the Babel Team. :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details. """ from __future__ import annotations from collections.abc import Sequence from typing import TYPE_CHECKING from babel.core import Locale, default_locale if TYPE_CHECKING: from typing_extensions import Literal DEFAULT_LOCALE = default_locale() def format_list(lst: Sequence[str], style: Literal['standard', 'standard-short', 'or', 'or-short', 'unit', 'unit-short', 'unit-narrow'] = 'standard', locale: Locale | str | None = DEFAULT_LOCALE) -> str: """ Format the items in `lst` as a list. >>> format_list(['apples', 'oranges', 'pears'], locale='en') u'apples, oranges, and pears' >>> format_list(['apples', 'oranges', 'pears'], locale='zh') u'apples\u3001oranges\u548cpears' >>> format_list(['omena', 'peruna', 'aplari'], style='or', locale='fi') u'omena, peruna tai aplari' These styles are defined, but not all are necessarily available in all locales. The following text is verbatim from the Unicode TR35-49 spec [1]. * standard: A typical 'and' list for arbitrary placeholders. eg. "January, February, and March" * standard-short: A short version of a 'and' list, suitable for use with short or abbreviated placeholder values. eg. "Jan., Feb., and Mar." * or: A typical 'or' list for arbitrary placeholders. eg. "January, February, or March" * or-short: A short version of an 'or' list. eg. "Jan., Feb., or Mar." * unit: A list suitable for wide units. eg. "3 feet, 7 inches" * unit-short: A list suitable for short units eg. "3 ft, 7 in" * unit-narrow: A list suitable for narrow units, where space on the screen is very limited. eg. "3′ 7″" [1]: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-49/tr35-general.html#ListPatterns :param lst: a sequence of items to format in to a list :param style: the style to format the list with. See above for description. :param locale: the locale """ locale = Locale.parse(locale) if not lst: return '' if len(lst) == 1: return lst[0] if style not in locale.list_patterns: raise ValueError( f'Locale {locale} does not support list formatting style {style!r} ' f'(supported are {sorted(locale.list_patterns)})' ) patterns = locale.list_patterns[style] if len(lst) == 2: return patterns['2'].format(*lst) result = patterns['start'].format(lst[0], lst[1]) for elem in lst[2:-1]: result = patterns['middle'].format(result, elem) result = patterns['end'].format(result, lst[-1]) return result