setuptools-gettext

setuptools plugin for gettext

Compile .po files into .mo files.

This plugin adds build_mo, clean_mo and install_mo subcommands for setup.py as well as hooking those into standard commands.

Usage

By default, setuptools_gettext compiles and installs mo files when there is a po directory present that contains .po files.

The .mo files are installed adjacent to your package as package data in a subdirectory called locale.

You can override these settings in pyproject.toml:

[build-system]
requires = ["setuptools", "setuptools-gettext"]
...

[tool.setuptools-gettext]
# directory in which the .po files can be found 
source_dir = "po"
# directory in which the generated .mo files are placed when building
build_dir = "breezy/locale"

Compilation tool

By default, either msgfmt or the translate-toolkit package is used to compile the .po files into .mo files - whichever is available.

The --msgfmt option can be used to force the use of msgfmt, and the --translate-toolkit option can be used to force the use of the translate-toolkit.

At the moment, msgfmt is preferred. In the future, the translate-toolkit will become the default.

You can use the translate-toolkit extra to install the translate-toolkit package.