MO File Support

The MO file support can read and write MO files. It reads them into Catalog objects and also writes catalogs out.

babel.messages.mofile.read_mo(fileobj)

Read a binary MO file from the given file-like object and return a corresponding Catalog object.

Parameters

fileobj – the file-like object to read the MO file from

Note

The implementation of this function is heavily based on the GNUTranslations._parse method of the gettext module in the standard library.

babel.messages.mofile.write_mo(fileobj, catalog, use_fuzzy=False)

Write a catalog to the specified file-like object using the GNU MO file format.

>>> import sys
>>> from babel.messages import Catalog
>>> from gettext import GNUTranslations
>>> from io import BytesIO

>>> catalog = Catalog(locale='en_US')
>>> catalog.add('foo', 'Voh')
<Message ...>
>>> catalog.add((u'bar', u'baz'), (u'Bahr', u'Batz'))
<Message ...>
>>> catalog.add('fuz', 'Futz', flags=['fuzzy'])
<Message ...>
>>> catalog.add('Fizz', '')
<Message ...>
>>> catalog.add(('Fuzz', 'Fuzzes'), ('', ''))
<Message ...>
>>> buf = BytesIO()

>>> write_mo(buf, catalog)
>>> x = buf.seek(0)
>>> translations = GNUTranslations(fp=buf)
>>> if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
...     translations.ugettext = translations.gettext
...     translations.ungettext = translations.ngettext
>>> translations.ugettext('foo')
u'Voh'
>>> translations.ungettext('bar', 'baz', 1)
u'Bahr'
>>> translations.ungettext('bar', 'baz', 2)
u'Batz'
>>> translations.ugettext('fuz')
u'fuz'
>>> translations.ugettext('Fizz')
u'Fizz'
>>> translations.ugettext('Fuzz')
u'Fuzz'
>>> translations.ugettext('Fuzzes')
u'Fuzzes'

Parameters

• fileobj – the file-like object to write to

• catalog – the Catalog instance

• use_fuzzy – whether translations marked as “fuzzy” should be included in the output