21.2.3 Access to message catalogs
The locale module exposes the C library's gettext interface on systems that provide this interface. It consists of the functions gettext(), dgettext(), dcgettext(), textdomain(), bindtextdomain(), and bind_textdomain_codeset(). These are similar to the same functions in the gettext module, but use the C library's binary format for message catalogs, and the C library's search algorithms for locating message catalogs.
Python applications should normally find no need to invoke these functions, and should use gettext instead. A known exception to this rule are applications that link use additional C libraries which internally invoke gettext() or dcgettext(). For these applications, it may be necessary to bind the text domain, so that the libraries can properly locate their message catalogs.
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Release 2.5, documentation updated on 19th September, 2006.