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6.28.3.1 Localizing your module</A>
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If you are localizing your module, you must take care not to make
global changes, e.g. to the built-in namespace.  You should not use
the GNU <code>gettext</code> API but instead the class-based API.

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Let's say your module is called ``spam'' and the module's various
natural language translation <span class="file">.mo</span> files reside in
<span class="file">/usr/share/locale</span> in GNU <b class="program">gettext</b> format.  Here's what
you would put at the top of your module:

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import gettext
t = gettext.translation('spam', '/usr/share/locale')
_ = t.lgettext
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If your translators were providing you with Unicode strings in their
<span class="file">.po</span> files, you'd instead do:

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import gettext
t = gettext.translation('spam', '/usr/share/locale')
_ = t.ugettext
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