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authorWalter Bender <walter.bender@gmail.com>2011-03-31 05:42:23 (GMT)
committer Walter Bender <walter.bender@gmail.com>2011-03-31 05:42:23 (GMT)
commit5bba62b88156e73bca1fa81c7c0aa0c47c0f73e3 (patch)
treeff0845605216e59186ad0b01f6029728b72226fe /TurtleArt
parentc6e7ebe564d13ca87382375de39814561289451b (diff)
adding new file for managing global gettext defintion
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright (c) 2010-11 Walter Bender, Martin Langhoff
+# License: GPLv2
+
+# Defines the magic global _() with the right params so all modules
+# can use it.
+#
+# Plugins that want to override MUST use a different technique. See
+# the developer notes in the TA wikipage.
+#
+import gettext
+import os
+
+# In a git checkout, locale is in the root of the project
+# so one dir "up" from tagettext.py
+localedir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)),
+ 'locale' )
+
+if os.path.exists(localedir):
+ # works from a git checkout
+ gettext.install('org.laptop.TurtleArtActivity', localedir)
+else:
+ # fallback for packaged TA (rpm, xo)
+ gettext.install('org.laptop.TurtleArtActivity')