Marking translatable strings

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "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