Writing an applilcation that can easily adapt to any language

[bruno at modulix]

Chance Ginger wrote:
> I am rather new at Python so I want to get it right. What I am doing
> is writing a rather large application with plenty of places that 
> strings will be used. Most of the strings involve statements of
> one kind or another. 

> I would like to make it easy for the support people to port the
> application from one language to another, German, Spanish, etc. 
> Rather than make them search all over for the strings to replace
> is there a library that I can use to make this all easier? I
> keep thinking of resources in Java, as an example. Is there 
> anything like it in Python?

http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.2/lib/module-gettext.html

HTH
-- 
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"