Quoting "A.M. Kuchling" <[email protected]>:
GNU xgettext didn't understand any languages other than C at one time, so pygettext.py was written to handle Python code but not C code.
That's not the only reason. Another two reasons are that a) it works on Windows (for xgettext, you'll have to install Cygwin, which some consider a bit heavy - if all you need is xgettext) b) it comes with Python (interesting on Unix systems that don't come with a pre-built xgettext; less relevant now as most Unix systems are Linux these days) I see no real harm done by keeping (and possibly fixing) pygettext. I also see little harm in removing it, although I guess that some people might still rely on it. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com