Object-oriented gettext

[Victor Porton]

Victor Porton wrote:

> I want to write a multiuser application which uses multiple languages (one
> language for logging and a language per user).
> 
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/gettext.html describes a procedural
> gettext interface. The language needs to be switched before each gettext()
> call.
> 
> I want an object oriented interface like:
> 
> english.gettext("Word") == "Word"
> russian.gettext("Word") == "Слово"
> 
> That is, I do no want to write any language-switching code, but the
> language should depend on the object (like "english" and "russian" in the
> above example).
> 
> What is the best way to do this?
> 
> Should I write an object-oriented wrapper around gettext package?


Oh, I see that gettext.translation() seems to do the job.

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