polib 1.0.1

Version 1.0.1 (2012/09/11)

• speed up POFile.merge method (thanks @encukou)

• allow comments starting with two ‘#’ characters (thanks @goibhniu)

Version 1.0.0 (2012/06/08)

Yeah… after nearly 6 years, polib reaches the stable state :) Changes and fixes in this release :

• polib.pofile and polib.mofile functions can now return a custom class (thanks Craig Blaszczyk)

• polib now can find the metadata entry no matter where it is located (thanks François Poirotte)

• fixed issue #28 (IOError on reading obsolete “previous msgid” entries) (thanks James Ni)

Version 0.7.0 (2011/07/14)

This version adds support for python 3 (thanks to Vinay Sajip). polib now supports out-of-the-box any version of python ranging from 2.4 to latest 3.X version. polib is now 5 years old ;) so the 0.7.X branch will be the last before the 1.X stable branch.

Version 0.6.4 (2011/07/13)

• Better api, autodetected_encoding is no longer required to explicitely set the encoding (fixes issue #23),

• Fixed issue #24 Support indented PO files (thanks to François Poirotte).

Version 0.6.3 (2011/02/19)

• Fixed issue #19 (Disappearing newline characters due to textwrap module),

• ensure wrapping works as expected.

Version 0.6.2 (2011/02/09)

• Backported textwrap.TextWrapper._wrap_chunks that has support for the drop_whitespace parameter added in Python 2.6 (Fixes #18: broken compatibility with python 2.5, thanks @jezdez).

Version 0.6.1 (2011/02/09)

• fixed regression that prevented POFile initialization from data to work (issue #17).

Version 0.6.0 (2011/02/07)

• polib is now fully documented,

• switched from doctests to unit tests to keep the polib.py file clean,

• fixed issue #7 (wrapping issues, thanks @jezdez),

• added a __eq__ method to _BaseFile (thanks @kost BebiX),

• handle msgctxt correctly when compiling mo files,

• compiled mo files are now exactly the same as those compiled by msgfmt without using hash tables.

Version 0.5.5 (2010/10/30)

• Removed multiline handling code, it was a mess and was the source of potential bugs like issue #11,

• Fixed typo in README and CHANGELOG, fixes issue #13.

Version 0.5.4 (2010/10/02)

• fixed an issue with detect_encoding(), in some cases it could return an invalid charset.

Version 0.5.3 (2010/08/29)

• correctly unescape lines containing both \\n and \n (thanks to Martin Geisler),

• fixed issue #6: __str__() methods are returning unicode instead of str,

• fixed issue #8: POFile.merge error when an entry is obsolete in a .po, that this entry reappears in the .pot and that we merge the two,

• added support to instanciate POFile objects using data instead of file path (thanks to Diego Búrigo Zacarão),

• fixed issue #9: POFile.merge drop fuzzy attributes from translations (thanks to Tim Gerundt),

• fixed issue #10: Finding entries with the same msgid and different context (msgctxt).

Version 0.5.2 (2010/06/09)

• fixed issue #1: untranslated_entries() also show fuzzy message,

• write back the fuzzy header if present in the pofile,

• added support for previous msgctxt, previous msgid and previous msgid_plural comments (fixes issue #5),

• better handling of lines wrapping.

Version 0.5.1 (2009/12/14)

• fixed issue #0025: setup.py requires CHANGELOG but it’s not present in polib-0.5.0-tar.gz

Version 0.5.0 (2009/12/13)

• fixed issue #0017: UnicodeDecodeError while writing a mo-file,

• fixed issue #0018: implemented support for msgctxt,

• fixed bug when compiling plural msgids/strs,

• API docs are no longer included, hopefully next release will ship with sphinx documentation,

• parse msg plural entries correctly when reading mo files,

• fixed issue #0020 and #0021: added ability to check for duplicate when adding entries to po/mo files, this is optional and not enabled by default because it slows down considerably the library,

• fixed issue #0022: unescaping code is insufficient,

• fixed issue #0023: encoding error when saving mo file as po file (thanks to sebastien.sable for the patch !).

Version 0.4.2 (2009/06/05)

• fixed issue #0007: use the codecs module to open files,

• fixed issue #0014: plural forms are not saved correctly in the mo file (thanks lorenzo.gil.sanchez for the patch),

• fixed issue #0015: no LICENSE file included in tarball,

• removed Version/Date from README,

• added test pot files to MANIFEST.in,

• performance improvment in find() method (thanks Thomas !).

Version 0.4.1 (2009/03/04)

• fixed issue #0006: plural msgstrs were saved unsorted,

• fixed issue #0008: long comment lines broke ‘save()’ method,

• removed performance shortcuts: they were in fact inefficient, I was misleaded by the python profile module, kudos to Thomas for making me realise that,

• fixed issue #0010: wrong polib version number,

• fixed issue #0011: occurrences parsing is now more robust and can handle weird references formats (like in eToys OLPC po files),

• fixed issue #0012: improved merge() method.

Version 0.4.0 (2008/11/26)

• fixed bug #0005: percent_translated divide by 0 on empty po files,

• fixed bug #0004: occurrences that have hiphens are wrapped when they should not,

• changes in how encoding is handled,

• remove deprecation warnings for typo on “occurrences”,

• added POEntry.__cmp__() method to sort entries like gettext does,

• fixed POEntry.transalated(),

• added a merge() method to POFile class, that behaves like the gettext msgmerge utility,

• obsolete entries are now written at the end of the file and with only msgid/msgstr like gettext does,

• fixed some bugs in mo files parsing,

• renamed quote/unquote functions to escape/unescape,

• various cosmetic changes.

Version 0.3.1 (2007/12/13)

• fixed bug #0002: typo on “occurrences”,

• fixed bug #0003: mismatch in exception instance names,

• removed deprecation warnings,

• removed unused charset() method in POFile/MOFile objects,

• fixed bug in multibytes string length (added regression tests),

• fixed a bug in detect_encoding(),

• added a find() method to _BaseFile class,

• proper handling of quoting and unquoting,

• proper handling of multiline strings in metadata

Version 0.3.0 (2007/10/17)

• speed improvements,

• polib can now compile mo files,

• unicode support,

• fixed bug #0001: global name ‘sorted’ is not defined” on python 2.3.

Version 0.1.0 (2006-08-08)

Initial release