On Sep 8, 2005, at 5:42 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 15:07, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > >> I was also able to easily automate the process of extracting strings >> to create that spreadsheet. I wrote a simple script that parsed the >> Python modules and looked for function calls of "_" whose only >> argument was a constant string. Worked great, and it was easy to >> write. >> > > I don't think enough people know about Tools/i18n/pygettext. It does > all the extractions for you, producing a GNU gettext compatible .pot > file. You can even teach it to recognize extraction keywords other > than > the default _(). printf() should be easy to recognize, although we > might have to make a slight modification since IIRC, pygettext will > only > extract strings from keyword functions with exactly one argument. > That > should be easy to fix.
You're right, I think Tools is probably a bad place for anything. If it's not part of the stdlib, I'll likely never find it. -bob _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
