popy 0.3.0

Parser for GNU Po files

Parser for GNU Po files

Installation

Install using pip:

pip install popy

Usage

Using popy to parse a PO file:

from popy.po_file import PoFile

f = PoFile(path='/path/to/your/file.po')
messages = f.get_messages() # gets all the messages
messages[0]
# MessageEntry object
messages[0].msgid
# First message's msgid
messages[1].msgstr
# Second message's msgstr as a list

MessageEntry object

These are the attributes:

msgid: str
msgstr: list of strings
msgid_plural: str
msgctxt: str
translator_comments: list of strings
extracted_comments: list of strings
references: list of strings
flags: list of strings
is_fuzzy: boolean

These are the important methods:

fix_newline_matching()
# Adds or removes newlines to/from msgstr in order to match msgid and msgstr newlines at the beginning or end.

__str__()
# Generates a message block

PoFile object

These are the attributes:

path: str
messages: list of MessageEntry objects

These are the important methods:

get_messages()
# Reads messages and returns list of MessageEntry objects

write_messages()
# Writes MessageEntry objects into the file

fix_newline_matching()
# Applys fix_newline_matching to the whole file

__str__()
# Generates a message block