[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] PEP 30XZ: Simplified Parsing

[Barry Warsaw]

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On May 3, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Barry Warsaw writes:
>
>> IMO, this is a problem.  We can make the Python extraction tool work,
>> but we should still be very careful about breaking 3rd party tools
>> like xgettext, since other projects may be using such tools.
>
> But
>
>  	_("some string" +
>  	  " and more of it")
>
> is already legal Python, and xgettext is already broken for it.

Yep, but the idiom that *gettext accepts is used far more often.  If  
that's outlawed then the tools /have/ to be taught the alternative.

> Arguably, xgettext's implementation of -L Python should be
>
>         execve ("pygettext", argv, environ);
>
> <wink>

Ouch. :)

- -Barry


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