Localization of the Python argparse module
Only the French language translation was initialy provided. Thanks to anselmobd and blackstream-x, the project now contains Portuguese and German language translations.
The binary wheel file contains litte endian mo translation files. Users of big endian systems should use the source distribution to generate the mo files on their own system.
The argparse module makes it easy to write user-friendly command-line interfaces. Specifically, it automatically generates help and usage messages and issues errors when users give the program invalid arguments. Unfortunately, even if the module is able to use gettext type localization strings, none is provided by the standard library.
This module provides some translations (at least a French one) and will be simply installable through pip
With pip: pip install i18nparse.
If you want to contribute, you should get a copy of the full tree from GitHUB:
git clone https://github.com/s-ball/i18nparse.git [your_working_copy_folder]
The i18nparse module defines 2 functions:
def activate(lang = None)
which activates the usage of the translation for the required language.
By default, the language for locale.getlocale() is used.
Note: In order to use the expected locale, it should be loaded prior to
the call to activate with locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, locale_name)
where locale_name is the name of a known locale or '' (empty string) for
the default locale.
def deactivate()
which reverts to the original texts.
Example:
import argparse
import i18nparse
import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') # sets a locale
i18nparse.activate() # Ok use current locale (if translation file exists)
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser('foo')
parser.print_help() # displays the help message for the current locale
Assuming a fr_FR locale, this displays:
usage : foo [-h]
arguments optionnels:
-h, --help affiche ce message et termine le programme
Contribution for new language translations or improvement of existing ones are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING for details
This project uses a standard Major.Minor.Patch versioning pattern. Inside a major version, public API stability is expected (at least after 1.0.0 version will be published).
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details