Using gettext to provide different language-version of a script

[Thomas W]

I'm trying to wrap my head around the docs at python.org related to the
gettext-module, but I'm having some problem getting it to work. Is
there any really simple, step-by-step on how to use this module
available?

This is my script so far :

import gettext
gettext.install('test2', '.', unicode=1)
lang1 = gettext.translation('test2', languages=['no'])
print _('writing a log to file')

in the folder where the test2.py-script lives I've created a
folder-structure like

../locales/NO/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo

the messages.mo-file I've created using the scripts in the
\Tools\i18l\-folder by running :

python pygettext.py test2.py

and renaming the generated messages.pot-file to messages.po, and
editing it to look like :

# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
# Copyright (C) YEAR ORGANIZATION
# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
#
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2005-11-22 13:02+W. Europe Standard Time\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <[e-mail]>\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING\n"
"Generated-By: pygettext.py 1.5\n"
#: test2.py:5
msgid "writing a log to file"
msgstr "skriver logg til fil"

and then run python msgfmt.py messages.po and moving it to

../locales/NO/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo

When I run

python test2.py

it gives me this error :

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program
Files\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py" ,
line 307, in RunScript
debugger.run(codeObject, __main__.__dict__, start_stepping=0)
File "C:\Program
Files\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\debugger\__init__.py",
line 60, in run
_GetCurrentDebugger().run(cmd, globals,locals, start_stepping)
File "C:\Program
Files\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\debugger\debugger.py",
line 631, in run
exec cmd in globals, locals
File "C:\Program Files\Python24\Tools\i18n\test2.py", line 4, in ?
lang1 = gettext.translation('test2', languages=['no'])
File "C:\Program Files\Python24\lib\gettext.py", line 456, in
translation
raise IOError(ENOENT, 'No translation file found for domain',
domain)
IOError: [Errno 2] No translation file found for domain: 'test2'

Hmmm ... any hints?

Thomas

[Tony Nelson]

In article <11**********************@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
"Thomas W" <th***********@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm trying to wrap my head around the docs at python.org related to the
gettext-module, but I'm having some problem getting it to work. Is
there any really simple, step-by-step on how to use this module
available?

This is my script so far :

import gettext
gettext.install('test2', '.', unicode=1)
lang1 = gettext.translation('test2', languages=['no'])
print _('writing a log to file')
I do:

# assume the script is named "myscript.py":
us = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]))[0]
usdir = os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0])

import gettext
gettext.install(us, usdir)

in the folder where the test2.py-script lives I've created a
folder-structure like

./locales/NO/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo
Mine looks like:

./en_PL/LC_MESSAGES/myscript.mo

the messages.mo-file I've created using the scripts in the
\Tools\i18l\-folder by running :

python pygettext.py test2.py

and renaming the generated messages.pot-file to messages.po, and
editing it to look like :

# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
# Copyright (C) YEAR ORGANIZATION
# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
#
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2005-11-22 13:02+W. Europe Standard Time\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <[e-mail]>\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING\n"
"Generated-By: pygettext.py 1.5\n"

...

You need to set the "Content-Type: charset" and
"Content-Transfer-Encoding:". I use:

"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
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[Martin v. Löwis]

Thomas W wrote:

Hmmm ... any hints?

I think gettext needs environment variables (e.g. LANG)
to be set.

Regards,
Martin