如何让你的Python程序支持多语言

本文介绍如何经过Python标准库gettext帮助你的程序支持多语言。

代码例子

import random

guessesTaken = 0 print(_("Hello! What's your name?")) myName = input() number = random.randint(1, 20) print("Well, {}, I am thinking of a number between 1 and 20.".format(myName)) while guessesTaken < 6: print("Take a guess.") guess = input() try: guess = int(guess) except ValueError: print("You should give me a number.") continue if guess < number: print("Your guess is too low.") if guess > number: print("You guess is too high.") if guess == number: break if guess == number: print("Good job, {}! You guessed my number in {} guesses!".format( myName, guessesTaken)) if guess != number: print("Nope. The number I was thinking of was {}.".format(number))

这是咱们一个简单的猜数字游戏，咱们执行看看过程。

$ python3 guess.py 
Hello! What's your name? Aidan Well, Aidan, I am thinking of a number between 1 and 20. Take a guess. 13 You guess is too high. Take a guess. 2 Your guess is too low. Take a guess. 12 You guess is too high. Take a guess. 1 Your guess is too low. Take a guess. 10 You guess is too high. Take a guess. 9 Good job, Aidan! You guessed my number in 6 guesses!

程序是很漂亮了，但是老板忽然要求你改为中文的，那么咱们一般可能选择将字符串所有修改成相应中文，可是老板要让你本身针对不一样用户不一样语言就麻烦了。那有啥办法呢？Python标准库gettext能够帮助咱们。

改造

咱们首先用_()，然改造咱们的字符串。你能够把_()想象成相似以下函数

def _(s): spanishStrings = {'Hello world!': 'Hola Mundo!'} frenchStrings = {'Hello world!': 'Bonjour le monde!'} germanStrings = {'Hello world!': 'Hallo Welt!'} if LANGUAGE == 'English': return s if LANGUAGE == 'Spanish': return spanishStrings[s] if LANGUAGE == 'French': return frenchStrings[s] if LANGUAGE == 'German': return germanStrings[s]

不过，当我查看他类型时，我发现他应该是某种继承了list的扩展类型。

>>> type(_) <class 'list'>

改造后咱们的代码以下

import random

guessesTaken = 0 print(_("Hello! What's your name?")) myName = input() number = random.randint(1, 20) print(_("Well, {}, I am thinking of a number between 1 and 20.").format(myName)) while guessesTaken < 6: guessesTaken += 1 print(_("Take a guess.")) guess = input() try: guess = int(guess) except ValueError: print(_("You should give me a number.")) continue if guess < number: print(_("Your guess is too low.")) if guess > number: print(_("You guess is too high.")) if guess == number: break if guess == number: print(_("Good job, {}! You guessed my number in {} guesses!").format( myName, guessesTaken)) if guess != number: print(_("Nope. The number I was thinking of was {}.").format(number))

提取字符串

Python 自带一个工具咱们提取使用_()包裹的字符串

pygettext3 -d guess guess.py

它生成了以下文件：

$ cat guess.pot 
# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE. # Copyright (C) YEAR ORGANIZATION # FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR. # msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2014-12-24 15:35+CST\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" "Generated-By: pygettext.py 1.5\n" #: guess.py:5 msgid "Hello! What's your name?" msgstr "" #: guess.py:9 msgid "Well, {}, I am thinking of a number between 1 and 20." msgstr "" #: guess.py:12 msgid "Take a guess." msgstr "" #: guess.py:17 msgid "You should give me a number." msgstr "" #: guess.py:21 msgid "Your guess is too low." msgstr "" #: guess.py:24 msgid "You guess is too high." msgstr "" #: guess.py:30 msgid "Good job, {}! You guessed my number in {} guesses!" msgstr "" #: guess.py:34 msgid "Nope. The number I was thinking of was {}." msgstr ""

翻译工做

咱们经过使用poedit这个很是好用的工具对其翻译成咱们想要的目标文件，该工具还带有翻译词典，跨平台。地址：http://poedit.net/

翻译后的结果

翻译后生成

guess.po

# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE. # Copyright (C) YEAR ORGANIZATION # FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR. # msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: \n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2014-12-24 15:35+CST\n" "PO-Revision-Date: 2014-12-24 16:23+0800\n" "Last-Translator: \n" "Language-Team: \n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" "Generated-By: pygettext.py 1.5\n" "X-Generator: Poedit 1.7.1\n" "Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; plural=0;\n" "Language: zh\n" #: guess.py:5 msgid "Hello! What's your name?" msgstr "你好！你叫什么名字？" #: guess.py:9 msgid "Well, {}, I am thinking of a number between 1 and 20." msgstr "好的，{}，我内心想了个1到20之间的数。" #: guess.py:12 msgid "Take a guess." msgstr "猜猜看。" #: guess.py:17 msgid "You should give me a number." msgstr "你应该给我个数字。" #: guess.py:21 msgid "Your guess is too low." msgstr "你猜低了。" #: guess.py:24 msgid "You guess is too high." msgstr "你猜高了。" #: guess.py:30 msgid "Good job, {}! You guessed my number in {} guesses!" msgstr "漂亮，{}！你用了{}次猜中了个人数字。" #: guess.py:34 msgid "Nope. The number I was thinking of was {}." msgstr "不对。我想的数字是{}。"

还有一个mo扩展的文件，MO 文件是面向计算机的、由 PO 文件经过 gettext 软件包编译而成的二进制文件。

咱们以下放置这两个文件

├── guess.py
├── locale
│ └── zh_CN
│ └── LC_MESSAGES
│ ├── guess.mo
│ └── guess.po

武装gettext

而后咱们在代码加入

import gettext es = gettext.translation('guess', localedir='locale', languages=['zh_CN']) es.install()

终极版本

import random import gettext es = gettext.translation('guess', localedir='locale', languages=['zh_CN']) es.install() guessesTaken = 0 print(_("Hello! What's your name?")) myName = input() number = random.randint(1, 20) print(_("Well, {}, I am thinking of a number between 1 and 20.").format(myName)) while guessesTaken < 6: guessesTaken += 1 print(_("Take a guess.")) guess = input() try: guess = int(guess) except ValueError: print(_("You should give me a number.")) continue if guess < number: print(_("Your guess is too low.")) if guess > number: print(_("You guess is too high.")) if guess == number: break if guess == number: print(_("Good job, {}! You guessed my number in {} guesses!").format( myName, guessesTaken)) if guess != number: print(_("Nope. The number I was thinking of was {}.").format(number))

惊人结果

$ python3 guess.py 你好！你叫什么名字？ 大熊 好的，大熊，我内心想了个1到20之间的数。 猜猜看。 10 你猜高了。 猜猜看。 8 你猜高了。 猜猜看。 6 你猜高了。 猜猜看。 4 漂亮，大熊！你用了4次猜中了个人数字。

结论

Python 在国际化操做方面很简单，你是否有更好的方案？