On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Pauli Virtanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think it would be quite straightforward to write a function that > crawled over the numpy namespace and dynamically replaced __doc__ with > gettextized versions. The user could call this function to switch the > language and the reference manual authors could call it to produce > localized versions of the manual. Moreover, we already have tools to > extract English docstrings from numpy and producing .pot files for > gettext could be done. I think i18n of numpy (or any other Python > module) is technically not as far out as it initially seems! Yes, that sounds (technically) feasible. > (This is assuming that there are no objects there that don't allow > changing their __doc__.) > > But I believe that in practice, we really had better to concentrate on > improving the documentation in English before thinking about spending > much effort on i18n or l10n. Yup. Sounds about right. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
