Problem with mixing doctest with gettext _()

[Pierre Rouleau]

Skip Montanaro wrote:

>     Pierre> I tried to define a _() function when testing with the code
>     Pierre> below but the doctest still fails.  The following code is at the
>     Pierre> end of my utstring.py module
>     ...
> 
> I suspect it's because your dummy _ is not in builtins.  Why not just call
> gettext.install() where you are currently defining _?
> 

Skip, this looks like the way to go.

I was trying to avoid it because the translation files for these library 
modules are constructed at the application level somewhere else.  But I 
was also considering creating a translation library for these module, so 
I guess that is one more incentive to do so...

Thanks

Pierre