Malayalam translation: python_by_example — native-speaker calibration review

[mmcky]

Machine translation of python_by_example for native-speaker review — Phase 2 of QuantEcon/action-translation#189. Merging this PR lands the translation including any fixes committed during review, so review comments here improve the real site directly.

For the reviewer: please comment on any line you would change — English that should be Malayalam, Malayalam that should be English, a wrong case-suffix, awkward phrasing, or the same term handled differently in two places. Headings, code cells and transliteration are already machine-verified (all headings byte-identical, code untouched, zero transliterations) — no need to proofread those. Every comment resolves to exactly one of: a glossary entry, a rule change in the translation tool, or accepted-as-is with our reasoning replied on the thread.

Provenance: source QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming@5816589 · model claude-sonnet-5 · action-translation@main with the register rules + glossary v0.2.0 derived from the reviewer packet · produced by harness run https://github.com/QuantEcon/test-translation-sync/actions/runs/30783362693 and adopted here byte-exact.

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Pull request overview

Adds the Malayalam machine translation of the python_by_example lecture for native-speaker calibration review (Phase 2 of QuantEcon/action-translation#189), landing the translated content directly into the site.

Changes:

• Introduces a new lectures/python_by_example.md MyST/Jupytext lecture file containing the Malayalam translation.
• Includes translation metadata (translation: block) for title/headings mapping.

Suppressed comments (3)

lectures/python_by_example.md:357

• "etc.-ന്" mixes English filler with Malayalam case-suffix; replacing with a Malayalam equivalent avoids the awkward hyphenation and reads more naturally.

വാസ്തവത്തിൽ, Python-ൽ, *എല്ലാ* code blocks-ഉം (അതായത്, loops, if clauses, function definitions, etc.-ന് അകത്ത് സംഭവിക്കുന്നവ) indentation-ൽ delimit ചെയ്യപ്പെടുന്നു.

lectures/python_by_example.md:372

• This nested bullet uses the English filler "etc." (with a trailing space). Consider replacing it with a Malayalam equivalent.

    * etc. 

lectures/python_by_example.md:280

• This Malayalam translation still uses the English filler "etc."; consider replacing it with a Malayalam equivalent for consistency.

* String objects-ന് [string methods](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#string-methods) ഉണ്ട്, list objects-ന് [list methods](https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#more-on-lists) ഉണ്ട്, etc.

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[mmcky]

A note on the automated comments above — they are not from our translation tool, and none of them needs your attention.

GitHub Copilot reviews every pull request in this organisation automatically. It is a general-purpose code reviewer with no knowledge of this edition's translation policy, so on a Malayalam lecture it mostly argues against the policy — repeatedly suggesting that technical terms kept in English should be rendered in Malayalam. That is exactly the over-translation this edition is designed to avoid, and in one case it proposed replacing recommend ചെയ്യുന്നു with ശുപാർശ ചെയ്യുന്നു, which inverts the light-verb rule you specified.

We have checked every one of its comments against the English source and replied to each on its own thread, then marked them resolved so they collapse out of your view. The breakdown for this lecture:

Copilot's comments	What we found
1 comment	A real markup problem (triple backticks used for inline code) that is present verbatim in the English source — filed upstream as QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming#602
1 comment, plus 3 it suppressed	Asks for etc. and similar retained English to be translated — contrary to the keep-English policy

None of its comments identified a translation defect.

What we are asking you for is unchanged: comment on any line you would change — English that should be Malayalam, Malayalam that should be English, a wrong case-suffix, awkward phrasing, or the same term handled differently in two places. Yours is the review that counts here; please disregard the collapsed automated threads entirely.

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Translated pages in this PR:

• python_by_example.html