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60 | If you are localizing your module, you must take care not to make | |
61 | global changes, e.g. to the built-in namespace. You should not use | |
62 | the GNU <code>gettext</code> API but instead the class-based API. | |
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65 | Let's say your module is called ``spam'' and the module's various | |
66 | natural language translation <span class="file">.mo</span> files reside in | |
67 | <span class="file">/usr/share/locale</span> in GNU <b class="program">gettext</b> format. Here's what | |
68 | you would put at the top of your module: | |
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72 | import gettext | |
73 | t = gettext.translation('spam', '/usr/share/locale') | |
74 | _ = t.lgettext | |
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78 | If your translators were providing you with Unicode strings in their | |
79 | <span class="file">.po</span> files, you'd instead do: | |
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83 | import gettext | |
84 | t = gettext.translation('spam', '/usr/share/locale') | |
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