Implement --init-missing
option for pybabel update
#785
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Currently, if an output
.po
file doesn't exist duringpybabel update
, the update fails when trying to open the missing file. This PR adds a boolean--init-missing
option. If this option is enabled during an update and an output.po
file is missing, it is created and initialized the same way it would be bypybabel init
.Before this PR you had to run two commands like
if
po/${LOC}/LC_MESSAGES/${DOM}.po
didn't exist.If the file did already exist, you had to only run the second command (otherwise, running
init
on an existing file overwrites it, removing any previous translations, which is not desirable).After this PR you will be able to run a single command and get the expected behaviour, no matter if the output file existed previously or not: