[I18n-sig] Re: pygettext.py extraction of docstrings

Martin v. Loewis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
Mon, 13 Aug 2001 07:35:17 +0200


> - Mention the existence of pygettext.py for extracting translatable
>   strings in Python.

To my knowledge, Bruno just put a section in the gettext manual
explaining gettext usage with various (progamming) languages. The
Python entry there does mention pygettext.py.

> - Point to Python's gettext module documentation for more details on
>   i18n'ing Python programs.  This should be a fairly stable url:
> 
>   http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-gettext.html

I don't think it has this link, yet. But then, URL-style links are
infrequent in texinfo documentation. Instead, (python)gettext might be
a better link.

> - Make sure that the other GNU gettext tools recognize the docstring
>   flag, in whatever way is meaningful (I'm not sure what would be
>   useful or not... ;).

At a minimum, msgmerge should preserve them.

Regards,
Martin