PoEdit causes problems because it scans also the Python sources in subdirectories where no scan is desired. So I want PoEdit to get new information about strings from a POT file. Here it is said that xgettext enables me to create a POT file from the sources. But I can't figure out how. It always generates a PO file.
How do I create a POT file with xgettext? Or is the old pygettext acceptable? Or is there another tool?
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Get Babel. It does just about everything you need pertaining to i18n and l10n you would need in a python project.
See also instructions for setting it up in a Setuptools/Distribute project; if you are not yet using them, I suggest you do
Just run
xgettextand rename the resultingdomainname.pofile todomainname.pot.See http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Template.html#Template