A library to manipulate gettext files (po and mo files).
Project description
polib allows you to manipulate, create, modify gettext files (pot, po and mo files). You can load existing files, iterate through it’s entries, add, modify entries, comments or metadata, etc… or create new po files from scratch.
polib provides a simple and pythonic API, exporting only three convenience functions pofile, mofile and detect_encoding, and the 4 core classes: POFile, MOFile, POEntry and MOEntry for creating new files/entries.
What’s new in version 0.4.0
fixed bug #0005: percent_translated divide by 0 on empty po files,
fixed bug #0004: occurences that have hiphens are wrapped when they should not,
changes in how encoding is handled,
remove deprecation warnings for typo occurences,
added POEntry.__cmp__() method to sort entries like gettext does,
fixed POEntry.translated(),
fixed some bugs in mo files parsing,
added a merge method to POFile, that behaves like the gettext msgmerge utility,
renamed quote/unquote functions to escape/unescape,
various cosmetic changes.
Basic usage example
>>> import polib
>>> # load an existing po file
>>> po = polib.pofile('tests/test_utf8.po')
>>> for entry in po:
... # do something with entry...
... print entry.msgid, entry.msgstr
>>> # add an entry
>>> entry = polib.POEntry(msgid='Welcome', msgstr='Bienvenue')
>>> entry.occurences = [('welcome.py', '12'), ('anotherfile.py', '34')]
>>> po.append(entry)
>>> # save our modified po file
>>> po.save()
>>> # compile it to a mo file
>>> po.save_as_mofile('tests/test_utf8.mo')
Download it from here and visit: http://code.google.com/p/polib/
