Generating a POT file
Question
PoEdit causes problems because it scans also the Python sources in subdirectories where no scan is desired. So I want PoEdit to get new information about strings from a POT file. Here it is said that xgettext
enables me to create a POT file from the sources. But I can't figure out how. It always generates a PO file.
How do I create a POT file with xgettext
? Or is the old pygettext
acceptable? Or is there another tool?
Solution
Just run xgettext
and rename the resulting domainname.po
file to domainname.pot
.
See http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Template.html#Template
OTHER TIPS
Get Babel. It does just about everything you need pertaining to i18n and l10n you would need in a python project.
See also instructions for setting it up in a Setuptools/Distribute project; if you are not yet using them, I suggest you do