[Python-Dev] Including translated doc strings in 2.4

[Michael Hudson]

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

> In the translation project, we now have two (partial) translation
> of Python doc strings: for German, and for Turkish. I'd like to ship
> the compiled message catalogs with Python 2.4, so that pydoc will
> automatically display translated doc strings if they are available.
>
> I would suggest to place the catalogs into Lib/messages/*.mo
> (alternatively, if a "non-doc" message catalog for Python is foreseen,
> Lib/doc/*.mo would also be reasonable).
>
> What do you think?

Sounds like a good idea to me!

Cheers,
mwh

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