[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] PEP 30XZ: Simplified Parsing

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Barry Warsaw writes:

 > IMO, this is a problem.  We can make the Python extraction tool work,  
 > but we should still be very careful about breaking 3rd party tools  
 > like xgettext, since other projects may be using such tools.

But

 	_("some string" +
 	  " and more of it")

is already legal Python, and xgettext is already broken for it.
Arguably, xgettext's implementation of -L Python should be

        execve ("pygettext", argv, environ);

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