SPIA, simple python internationalization api

Quickly and easy, internationalize your python applications

About

SPIA makes easy the internationalization process in a on-growing python application, with a pure python (and pythonic) internationalization. SPIA is not a complete i18n API yet, but maybe in the future... well, it maybe is not an api yet...

SPIA is now python 3.x compatible

How it works

Internationalization files

The SPIA internationalization files are python modules that contains a dictionary with the key-text peers, the module names correspond to a simplified locale name, for example: "en-us.py" for United States english or "es-es.py" for Spain spanish, this is an example of a es-es.py content:

# coding: utf8

keys = {
'home' : 'casa',
'keyboard' : 'teclado',
'computer' : 'computadora',
'my name is %s' : 'mi nombre es %s'
}

SPIA can find the correct module for the system locale and replace the code keywords for the correct translated strings.

Python code

This is an example of a python application using SPIA:

import spia.internationalizator as internationalizator # import the SPIA internationalizator
from spia.internationalizator import _ # import the internationalization function, IN THIS CASE: _()
"""
For another function caller (for example T):
from spia.internationalizator import _ as T
"""

internationalizator.load_locale_chains("/app/locale_dir") # the locale dir contains the internationalization files

print _('home')
print _('keyboard')
print _('computer')
print _('my name is %s', 'Pepe')

Output in a spanish eviroment:

casa
teclado
computadora
mi nombre es Pepe

Output in a english eviroment:

home
keyboard
computer
my name is Pepe

To force a defined locale you could use:

internationalizator.force('es-es') # force translation to Spain spanish
internationalizator.force('es_ES') # same
internationalizator.force('es') # force translation to spanish
internationalizator.force(None) # back to use enviroment locale
# or
internationalizator.force('') # back to use enviroment locale

Creator

SPIA has a creator module (or script), that create or update the locale files (internationalization files) for you, it obtain the internationalization strings (by default the _('string') function) from a python file, and create (or update) the locale module specified with the -l option. we can use it in that way:

python creator.py my_python_file.py /my_locales_folder/ -l es-es

A different function call can be specified with the -f option, for example, for use the T('string') function call:

python creator.py my_python_file.py /my_locales_folder/ -l es-es -f T