[Python-Dev] Replacement for print in Python 3.0

Thu Sep 8 19:08:53 CEST 2005

On Sep 8, 2005, at 5:42 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Wed, 2005年09月07日 at 15:07, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>>> I was also able to easily automate the process of extracting strings
>> to create that spreadsheet. I wrote a simple script that parsed the
>> Python modules and looked for function calls of "_" whose only
>> argument was a constant string. Worked great, and it was easy to 
>> write.
>>>> I don't think enough people know about Tools/i18n/pygettext. It does
> all the extractions for you, producing a GNU gettext compatible .pot
> file. You can even teach it to recognize extraction keywords other 
> than
> the default _(). printf() should be easy to recognize, although we
> might have to make a slight modification since IIRC, pygettext will 
> only
> extract strings from keyword functions with exactly one argument. 
> That
> should be easy to fix.

You're right, I think Tools is probably a bad place for anything. If 
it's not part of the stdlib, I'll likely never find it.
-bob