AW: [Zope-dev] Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: New i18n locale extraction concept

[Stephan Richter]

On Thursday 08 May 2008, Roger Ineichen wrote:
> > That should not be necessary I think.  At least I am not used to it.
> > When I use i18ndude for making pot/po files for a Plone
> > product/package and I have "from Products.CMFPlone import something"
> > in a file, then this import does not really take place.  I
> > expect in the case of python files it simply looks for lines like:
> >
> >   _(u"My message to the world.")
>
> Probably it works in some ues case but for sure not in all.
> Let's give a sample. If you define a interface like
>
> foo = zope.schema.Choice(
>     title=_('Title'),
>     vocabulary=foo.bar.myVocabularyFromPackageFoo
>     )

You do not need a running environment for the Python message extractions; you 
need it for ZCML (I think). Python is extracted using the parser module and 
looking for _ function calls with a string in it.

Regards,
Stephan
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