PyG3T - Python gettext Translation Toolkit

Introducing PyG3T

PyG3T (Python gettext Translation Toolkit) is a very useful suite of python based command line tools for gettext translators. It’s developed by Danish translators Ask and Kenneth and it’s been a great help for me for quite some time – recently there was a new release adding even more tools to the suite.

PyG3T includes among others the following tools:

• podiff for creating diffs
• gtgrep which allows you to grep in PO files in msgid or msgstr only and ignoring accelerators
• poabc checks for common mistakes, inconsistent punctuation etc.
• gtmerge provides an alternative for msgmerge, for merging PO/POT files
• gtxml checks for ill-formed xml

Installing PyG3T on openSUSE

1) Download the tarball and uncompress it
2) Enter the resulting folder and run ‘python setup.py bdist_rpm’. This builds an RPM in the ‘dist’ subdir
3) Install the resulting RPM e.g. with ‘zypper install /path/to/pyg3t-0.3.1-1.noarch.rpm’
4) Each tool has a useful help page, try e.g. ‘gtgrep –help’
5) Enjoy

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