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babel.messages.mofile

Writing of files in the gettext MO (machine object) format.

since:	version 0.9
see:	The Format of MO Files

read_mo(fileobj)

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

param fileobj:	the file-like object to read the MO file from
return:	a catalog object representing the parsed MO file
rtype:	Catalog
note:	The implementation of this function is heavily based on the GNUTranslations._parse method of the gettext module in the standard library.

write_mo(fileobj, catalog, use_fuzzy=False)

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

>>> from babel.messages import Catalog
>>> from gettext import GNUTranslations
>>> from StringIO import StringIO

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

>>> write_mo(buf, catalog)
>>> buf.seek(0)
>>> translations = GNUTranslations(fp=buf)
>>> 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'

param fileobj:	the file-like object to write to
param catalog:	the Catalog instance
param use_fuzzy:
	whether translations marked as "fuzzy" should be included in the output

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