Localizing strings?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Preston Landers <mithy at my-deja.com> wrote:
> Is there an easy way to use translatable strings in your Python program
> a la GNU gettext?  The os.localize module doesn't seem to do what I need
> to do.  can anyone point me to some documentation or examples?

how about:

    # Translate.py

    messages = {}

    # ... check environment variable to figure out what file
    # to load, and load it using marshal, fp.readlines, pickle, ...

    # do it by hand, for now...
    message["hello, world"] = "tjaba"

    def T(message):
        return table.get(messages, messages)

and:

    # main

    from Translate import T

    print T("hello, world")

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