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NAME

       pygettext - Python equivalent of xgettext(1)

SYNOPSIS

       pygettext [OPTIONS] INPUTFILE ...

DESCRIPTION

       pygettext is deprecated. The current version of xgettext supports many languages, including Python.

       pygettext uses Python's standard tokenize module to scan Python source code, generating .pot files identical to what GNU xgettext generates
       for C and C++ code.  From there, the standard GNU tools can be used.

       pygettext searches only for _() by default, even though GNU xgettext recognizes the following keywords: gettext, dgettext,  dcgettext,  and
       gettext_noop. See the -k/--keyword flag below for how to augment this.

OPTIONS

       -a, --extract-all
	      Extract all strings.

       -d, --default-domain=NAME
	      Rename the default output file from messages.pot to name.pot.

       -E, --escape
	      Replace non-ASCII characters with octal escape sequences.

       -D, --docstrings
	      Extract  module,	class, method, and function docstrings.  These do not need to be wrapped in _() markers, and in fact cannot be for
	      Python to consider them docstrings. (See also the -X option).

       -h, --help
	      Print this help message and exit.

       -k, --keyword=WORD
	      Keywords to look for in addition to the default set, which are: _

	      You can have multiple -k flags on the command line.

       -K, --no-default-keywords
	      Disable the default set of keywords (see above).	Any keywords explicitly added with the -k/--keyword option are still recognized.

       --no-location
	      Do not write filename/lineno location comments.

       -n, --add-location
	      Write filename/lineno location comments indicating where each extracted string is found in the source.  These  lines  appear  before
	      each msgid.  The style of comments is controlled by the -S/--style option.  This is the default.

       -o, --output=FILENAME
	      Rename the default output file from messages.pot to FILENAME.  If FILENAME is `-' then the output is sent to standard out.

       -p, --output-dir=DIR
	      Output files will be placed in directory DIR.

       -S, --style=STYLENAME
	      Specify which style to use for location comments.  Two styles are supported:

	      o   Solaris   # File: filename, line: line-number

	      o   GNU	    #: filename:line

	      The style name is case insensitive.  GNU style is the default.

       -v, --verbose
	      Print the names of the files being processed.

       -V, --version
	      Print the version of pygettext and exit.

       -w, --width=COLUMNS
	      Set width of output to columns.

       -x, --exclude-file=FILENAME
	      Specify  a  file	that  contains	a list of strings that are not be extracted from the input files.  Each string to be excluded must
	      appear on a line by itself in the file.

       -X, --no-docstrings=FILENAME
	      Specify a file that contains a list of files (one per line) that should not have their docstrings extracted.  This is only useful in
	      conjunction with the -D option above.

       If `INPUTFILE' is -, standard input is read.

BUGS

       pygettext  attempts  to	be option and feature compatible with GNU xgettext where ever possible.  However some options are still missing or
       are not fully implemented.  Also, xgettext's use of command line switches with option arguments is broken, and in  these  cases,  pygettext
       just defines additional switches.

AUTHOR

       pygettext is written by Barry Warsaw <barry@zope.com>.

       Joonas Paalasmaa <joonas.paalasmaa@iki.fi> put this manual page together based on "pygettext --help".

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