[Answered ]-Django: Localization Issue

“Lazy translation”

The result of a ugettext_lazy() call can be used wherever you would use a unicode string (an object with type unicode) in Python. If you try to use it where a bytestring (a str object) is expected, things will not work as expected, since a ugettext_lazy() object doesn’t know how to convert itself to a bytestring. You can’t use a unicode string inside a bytestring, either, so this is consistent with normal Python behavior.

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If you ever see output that looks like "hello <django.utils.functional...>", you have tried to insert the result of ugettext_lazy() into a bytestring. That’s a bug in your code.

Either pass it to unicode() to get the unicode from it, or don’t use lazy translation.