Question

In the Getting things gnome code base I stumbled upon this import statement

from GTG import _  

and have no idea what it means, never seen this in the documentation and a quick so / google search didn’t turn anything up.

Answer 1

from GTG import _ imports the _ function from the GTG module into the “current” namespace.

Usually, the _ function is an alias for gettext.gettext(), a function that shows the localized version of a given message. The documentation gives a picture of what is usually going on somewhere else in a module far, far away:

import gettext
gettext.bindtextdomain('myapplication', '/path/to/my/language/directory')
gettext.textdomain('myapplication')
_ = gettext.gettext
# ...
print _('This is a translatable string.')