On 7/11/07, Andre Roberge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It is a standard convention. Lots of tools are built on the assumption that translatable strings are going to be enclosed in _(...) These tools extract the strings from programs, and put them in files (.po) that are easily editable by human translators. This convention is *not* limited to Python.
So, it's used as a marker to allow for easy language portability for internal text strings? I did not know that. Thanks!
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