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

[Karl Eichwalder]

barry@wooz.org (Barry A. Warsaw) writes:

> >>>>> And "MvL" == Martin v Loewis <martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>
> >>>>> responded:

>     MvL> #, py-doc
> 
>     MvL> I don't know the exact specification of the #, comments, but
>     MvL> it can look like
> 
>     MvL> #, c-format, fuzzy
> 
>     MvL> i.e. it appears to be a comma-separated list of informative
>     MvL> flags. Translators could then decide to deal with doc strings
>     MvL> in a different manner (e.g follow different grammatical
>     MvL> conventions).

> I think the correct thing to do is to mark docstring extractions with
> 
>     #. docstring
> 
> comments.

No, #. is reserved for literally extracted comments; #, is for
meta-comments.  Martin's proposal sounds better.

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