.. method:: info()
- Return the "protected" :attr:`_info` variable, a dictionary containing
+ Return a dictionary containing
the metadata found in the message catalog file.
The :class:`GNUTranslations` class
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-The :mod:`gettext` module provides one additional class derived from
+The :mod:`!gettext` module provides one additional class derived from
:class:`NullTranslations`: :class:`GNUTranslations`. This class overrides
-:meth:`_parse` to enable reading GNU :program:`gettext` format :file:`.mo` files
+:meth:`!_parse` to enable reading GNU :program:`gettext` format :file:`.mo` files
in both big-endian and little-endian format.
:class:`GNUTranslations` parses optional metadata out of the translation
the translation for the empty string. This metadata is in :rfc:`822`\ -style
``key: value`` pairs, and should contain the ``Project-Id-Version`` key. If the
key ``Content-Type`` is found, then the ``charset`` property is used to
-initialize the "protected" :attr:`_charset` instance variable, defaulting to
+initialize the "protected" :attr:`!_charset` instance variable, defaulting to
``None`` if not found. If the charset encoding is specified, then all message
ids and message strings read from the catalog are converted to Unicode using
this encoding, else ASCII is assumed.
will assume message ids as Unicode strings, not byte strings.
The entire set of key/value pairs are placed into a dictionary and set as the
-"protected" :attr:`_info` instance variable.
+"protected" :attr:`!_info` instance variable.
If the :file:`.mo` file's magic number is invalid, the major version number is
unexpected, or if other problems occur while reading the file, instantiating a
.. rubric:: Footnotes
-.. [#] The default locale directory is system dependent; for example, on RedHat Linux
+.. [#] The default locale directory is system dependent; for example, on Red Hat Linux
it is :file:`/usr/share/locale`, but on Solaris it is :file:`/usr/lib/locale`.
- The :mod:`gettext` module does not try to support these system dependent
+ The :mod:`!gettext` module does not try to support these system dependent
defaults; instead its default is :file:`{sys.base_prefix}/share/locale` (see
:data:`sys.base_prefix`). For this reason, it is always best to call
:func:`bindtextdomain` with an explicit absolute path at the start of your