keyword: remove docstrings to ease translation

[Martin Geisler]

timeless <timeless at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Martin Geisler <mg at daimi.au.dk> wrote:
>> I don't like that idea -- it would make the translations contain
>> untranslated strings on purpose. As a translator I would want to
>> reach the 100% translated mark.
>
> why isn't it possible to have the translations not include those
> symbols?
>
> fwiw, !! came to mind as a prefix.
>
> Whichever character (pattern) one picked, the tools could be easily
> adapted so that the prefix is not present in documentation output, or
> the entire string in the localization tables...

The goal of inserting some pattern is that we can use the standard
pygettext program to extract the docstrings with no fuzz -- if we're
going to post-process things anyway we might as well write our own more
accurate extractor from the beginning.

At least that's how I see it :-)

-- 
Martin Geisler

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