如何让你的Python程序支持多语言

本文介绍如何通过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))

这是我们一个简单的猜数字游戏，我们执行看看过程。

$ 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，可是老板突然要求你改成中文的，那么我们通常可能选择将字符串全部修改为相应中文，但是老板要让你自己针对不同用户不同语言就麻烦了。那有啥办法呢？Python标准库gettext可以帮助我们。

改造

我们首先用_()，然改造我们的字符串。你可以把_()想象成类似如下函数

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'>

改造后我们的代码如下

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 自带一个工具我们提取使用_()包裹的字符串

pygettext3 -d guess guess.py

它生成了如下文件：

$ 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 ""

翻译工作

我们通过使用poedit这个非常好用的工具对其翻译成我们想要的目标文件，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，{}，我心里想了个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{}次猜中了我的数字。"

#: 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 文件通过 gettext 软件包编译而成的二进制文件。

我们如下放置这两个文件

├── guess.py

├── locale

│ └── zh_CN

│ └── LC_MESSAGES

│ ├── guess.mo

│ └── guess.po

武装gettext

然后我们在代码加入

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，我心里想了个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次猜中了我的数字。

结论

Python 在国际化操作方面很简单，你是否有更好的方案？