[XML-SIG] PyXML breaks localization

[Uche Ogbuji]

> Hi everybody,
> I have just found that PyXML calls gettext.install() on import (via 
> dom/MessageSource.py), which means that simply calling:
> 
> import xml.dom
> 
> puts _() to your __builtin__ namespace. Even worse is, that previously 
> installed _() is overridden, thus breaking the localization of running app.
> Even if this is easy to fix by calling gettext.install() after xml.dom 
> was imported, it does not seem to me as a Good Thing(tm).
> 
> I think that the localization scheme of PyXML should be changed 
> according to http://python.org/doc/2.2.1/lib/node207.html in order not 
> to pollute the __builtin__ namespace.

I'll look into this.  I've wanted to touch up the l10n code, anyway.


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