Question

My site structure looks like this:

project
--apps
----app1
----app2
--docs
--templates
----module1
----module2
----module3

how can I run

django-admin.py makemessages --locale=en

on all apps and template dirs but leave out module1 and module3?

Answer 1

I have written a short script to iterate over the folders in my project directory and create translations if the folder contains a locale folder. The script which can be easily modified to exclude apps/directories if required

My project folder structure is

Project
--App1
----locale
--App2
----locale
--ProjectRoot - settings.py file is in ProjectRoot folder
----locale
etc

This script (run_makemessages.py) lives in the Project folder

import os
project_root = "/path/to/your/Project"
dirs = os.listdir(project_root)
for app in dirs:
    app_path = os.path.join(project_root, app)
    locale_path = os.path.join(app_path, "locale")
    if(os.path.exists(locale_path)): #modify this condition for exclusion of specific folders
        os.chdir(app_path)
        os.system("django-admin.py makemessages -a --no-wrap")

and is called with python run_makemessages.py – ie it’s called directly and doesn’t use django-admin or manage.py