Comments on: Translating your Python/PyGTK application

By: Charles Merriam

Charles Merriam — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:34:34 +0000

First, thank you for the excellent write-up. Very few examples of using internationalization and localization exist for Python.

Second, many operating systems, including Ubuntu, fail to explicitly set the LANGUAGE variable. This leads to many non-working pieces of code. Your solution is one of the few that addresses this correctly.

Third, the most simple usage of “from gettext import gettext.gettext as _” is often used as a temporary solution between coding your Python program and localizing it. Alternately, some put in the placeholder “def _(str): str” to allow coding in internationalization before beginning it.

Finally, could you explain the odd issues of making a translation for a language. That is, will a locale of “de_DE” grab the “de” translation if there is no “de_DE” directory?

Great article!

By: Eiwot

Eiwot — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:31:28 +0000

Great !!!

By: Kopfgeldjaeger

Kopfgeldjaeger — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:21:12 +0000

Hello! Your code (example code in gunzip archive) does not really work for me as it should. But that’s not that bad, because I know have a very short solution for Python+PyGTK+Gettext+Glade:

[codelang="python"]#

APP = “gvdown”
DIR = “po”

gtk.glade.bindtextdomain(APP, DIR)
gtk.glade.textdomain(APP)

#
greetings

By: JulioBiason.Net

JulioBiason.Net — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:34:12 +0000

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By: Nano

Nano — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:57:16 +0000

Ahh, of course … thanks a lot.

By: selsine

selsine — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:23:41 +0000

Hi Nano,

You are using the gettext() function incorrectly, you need to only pass it text instead of text and the button.

Try this:

self.button1 = self.wTree.get_widget(”button1″)
tooltips.set_tip(self.button1, _(“Configure the Bash”))

Also remember that if you are configuring the tips in Glade the translation should already be taken care of.

By: Nano

Nano — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:58:42 +0000

hi, cool article, but how to translate tooltips?

I have the following:

tooltips = gtk.Tooltips()

self.button1 = self.wTree.get_widget(”button1″)
tooltips.set_tip(_(self.button1, “Configure the Bash”))

but then i start the app i get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/nix-style.real”, line 109, in ?
hwg = NixStyleTen()
File “/usr/bin/nix-style.real”, line 67, in __init__
tooltips.set_tip(_(button1, “Configure the Bash”))
TypeError: gettext() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given)

i got no clue

By: selsine

selsine — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:12:52 +0000

Hi Lars,

Feel free to use the code, in fact I’m glad that people are using it in there programs, makes me feel useful!

If you want to do anything for me you could mention my name: Mark Mruss and my blog: http://www.learningpython.com

That would be very cool!

Good luck!

By: Lars Friedrichs

Lars Friedrichs — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:42:34 +0000

Hi,

thanks for this nice tut. I shamelessly cut’n'pasted the needed python code into my project BlueProximity at http://blueproximity.sourceforge.net which I hope is OK to you. You will get credits in the Changelog as being helpful with the translation infrastructure if that is alright with you. Please mail me for details.

Bye
Lars

By: myspacetotal

myspacetotal — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:37:31 +0000

myspacetotal

Interesting Article.