Strings won't be translated in Django using format function available in Python 2.7

compilemessages sees the string as "{sitename} is a good website", but when the app is running the string is actually e.g. "MySite is a good website", which of course doesn't have a translation. You must translate the bare string first, and then you can perform template operations on it.

The following should work:

_('Foo %(x)s') % {'x': "bar"}

s is the string, d is the intiger.