s-ball <s-b...@laposte.net> added the comment:
I have followed SilentGhost's advice and begun by thoroughly testing the current behaviour. I then realized that I was wrong, and that (probably by chance) msgfmt.py partially followed my requirements, but pybabel did not and GNU gettext msgfmt did not really. I wrote 2 tiny po files (joined) and played with them, meaning I tried to combine them with pybabel, msgfmt.py and GNU gettext msg. Current behaviour (Windows shell syntax): > pybabel compile -o .\file12-fr.mo -l fr -i file1-fr.po -i file2-fr.po only uses second file (file2-fr.po) > msgfmt -o file12-fr.mo --no-hash file1-fr.po file2-fr.po chokes on a repeated key on file2 (the header has "" for key...). It works fine anyway after commenting out the header in any of the files > python "path\to\Tools\i18n\msgfmt.py" -o file12py-fr.mo file1-fr.po > file2-fr.po unexpectedly produces the expected result and successfully combines both po files into one single mo file BUT: > python "path\to\Tools\i18n\msgfmt.py" file1-fr.po file2-fr.po Produces file1-fr.mo which is the compiled version of file1-fr.po and file2-fr.mo which combines both input files. Definitely not an expected result! This is caused by the problem identified in issue 9741 (https://bugs.python.org/issue9741) My initial goal was to be able to use the make function from msgfmt.py in an external script. I then realize that combining multiple po files is not a good idea because the resulting mo file can only contain one single header and the best behaviour is GNU gettext msgfmt one. I now wonder whether this issue should not be closed because the requirement is not relevant, and it would probably better to propose a fix (including tests and code improvement) for issue 9741. ---------- Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file47966/files.zip _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35335> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
