babel

Package babel

Integrated collection of utilities that assist in internationalizing and localizing applications.

This package is basically composed of two major parts:

tools to build and work with gettext message catalogs

a Python interface to the CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository), providing access to various locale display names, localized number and date formatting, etc.

See Also:: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/, http://docs.python.org/lib/module-gettext.html, http://www.unicode.org/cldr/

Version: 0.9.1

Submodules

babel.core: Core locale representation and locale data access.
babel.dates: Locale dependent formatting and parsing of dates and times.
babel.localedata: Low-level locale data access.
babel.messages: Support for gettext message catalogs.
- babel.messages.catalog: Data structures for message catalogs.
- babel.messages.checkers: Various routines that help with validation of translations.
- babel.messages.extract: Basic infrastructure for extracting localizable messages from source files.
- babel.messages.frontend: Frontends for the message extraction functionality.
- babel.messages.mofile: Writing of files in the gettext MO (machine object) format.
- babel.messages.plurals: Plural form definitions.
- babel.messages.pofile: Reading and writing of files in the gettext PO (portable object) format.
babel.numbers: Locale dependent formatting and parsing of numeric data.
babel.support: Several classes and functions that help with integrating and using Babel in applications.
babel.util: Various utility classes and functions.