!gettext --- Multilingual internationalization services — The Catalog constructor
GNOME uses a version of the !gettext module by James Henstridge, but this version has a slightly different API.
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GNOME uses a version of the !gettext module by James Henstridge, but this version has a slightly different API. Its documented usage was
import gettext cat = gettext.Catalog(domain, localedir) _ = cat.gettext print(_('hello world'))
For compatibility with this older module, the function !Catalog is an alias for the translation function described above.
One difference between this module and Henstridge's: his catalog objects supported access through a mapping API, but this appears to be unused and so is not currently supported.
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