Question

I want to pull certain comments from my py files that give context to translations, rather than manually editing the .pot file basically i want to go from this python file:

# For Translators: some useful info about the sentence below _('Some string blah blah') 

to this pot file:

# For Translators: some useful info about the sentence below #: something.py:1 msgid 'Some string blah blah' msgstr '' 

Answer 1

After much pissing about I found the best way to do this:

#. Translators: # Blah blah blah _('String') 

Then search for comments with a . like so:

xgettext --language=Python --keyword=_ --add-comments=. --output=test.pot *.py