pygettext examples?

[Joseph Santaniello]

Sure does help, Martin. Thanks. I'm working on a threaded server-type 
application that doesn't really have any interactive users who would have 
enviornmental variables to set, so I'll use your suggestions for how to 
change things manually.

Thanks again,

Joseph

On 2 Dec 2001 at 15:17, Martin von Loewis wrote:

> Joseph Santaniello <joseph at arbitrary.org> writes:
> 
> > OK, so it works now (I had my directory structure incorrect) but the only 
> > way I have successfully changed languages on the fly is by using 
> > os.environ['LANG'] = 'no'. 
> 
> That is the way it is supposed to work: The user shall set her LANG
> environment variable, and then all programs shall print messages in
> the user's preferred language. If you want it differently, expect to
> write more code yourself.
> 
> > I haven't been able to figure out how to use gettext.translation()
> > and install() to change the language. Is there any reason why I
> > shouldn't just continue to use the os.environ method?
> 
> If you want to switch languages dynamically (and ignore the user's
> LANG setting altogether) I recommend that you directly load the
> translation files.
> 
> the_catalog = gettext.translation("domain",languages=["no"])
> 
> def _(msg):
>   return the_catalog.gettext(msg)
> 
> Then, whenever you want to switch a language, just change the_catalog.
> Alternatively, you could also do
> 
> _ = gettext.translation("domain", languages=["current-lang"]).gettext
> 
> (make sure you rebind _ in a scope so that all your modules see that
> change)
> 
> Notice that gettext.translation also allows specification of the
> locale directory. If you don't even want to use the
> LC_MESSAGES/lang.mo directory structure, you can use
> 
> the_catalog = gettext.GNUTranslation(open(mofile))
> 
> in which case control for opening the right mofile is completely in
> your hands.
> 
> HTH,
> Martin
>