Marking translatable strings

Mon Oct 11 14:12:21 EDT 1999

>>>>> "SM" == Skip Montanaro <skip at mojam.com> writes:

 SM> How do you distinguish between a translatable string and a
 SM> call to a function named "_"?
You don't (or at least I don't in my admittedly sketchy forays so
far). My pygettext.py uses tokenize to find all the function _()
calls and extracts the string inside them, writing them to the .pot
file. It's still up to the application to write the _ function (which
probably does a caching lazy run-time translation of the string), and
make it global available.
-Barry