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I am creating a Python application that uses a bunch of translated strings. The directory structure containing the specified lines is as follows:

/locales
    default.pot # reference English strings live here
    /es_ES
        /LC_MESSAGES
            default.po #Spanish strings
    /de_DE
        /LC_MESSAGES
            default.po #German strings

These files default.powere generated by the PHP application, but as far as I know, they comply with the general standard that is necessary for working with implementations gettext.

When I try to use these lines in Python using gettext, the following comes down (this example ran from a directory locales:

>>> import os; os.listdir('.')
['.svn', 'de_DE', 'default.pot', 'eng', 'es_ES', 'fr_FR', 'ja_JP', 'ko_KR', 'pl_PL', 'pt_BR', 'ru_RU']
>>> import os.path
>>> os.path.exists('./es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/default.po')
True
>>> import gettext
>>> ldir = 'es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/'
>>> t = gettext.translation('default',ldir)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/gettext.py", line 469, in translation
IOError: [Errno 2] No translation file found for domain: 'default'
>>>

I am not sure what I am doing wrong here (outside of inexperience with this library and the concept of "domain" in its context).

Am I making a simple mistake? Or do I have a fundamental flaw in my understanding of how this shit works?

Thank!

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, , http://docs.python.org/library/gettext, :

  • ldir , (/usr/share/locale - ). gettext ldir/lang_COUNTRY/catalog.mo
  • .po , .mo . , msgfmt ( "brew gettext" mac - ).

:

$ find /tmp/locales -type f
/tmp/locales/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/default.mo
/tmp/locales/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/default.po
/tmp/locales/default.pot
/tmp/locales/en_IE/LC_MESSAGES/default.mo
/tmp/locales/en_IE/LC_MESSAGES/default.po

$ ~/Library/homebrew/Cellar/gettext/0.18.1.1/bin/msgfmt \
-o locales/en_IE/LC_MESSAGES/default.mo \
locales/en_IE/LC_MESSAGES/default.po

$ cat /tmp/app.py 
import gettext
t = gettext.translation('default', "/tmp/locales")
_ = t.ugettext

print _("Hello World")

$ locale
LANG="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

$ python app.py 
How the craic?

$ LC_MESSAGES=de_DE python app.py
Guten Tag
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