diff -r 57b4279d8c4e -r 03e267d67478 app/django/bin/compile-messages.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/app/django/bin/compile-messages.py	Fri Jul 18 18:22:23 2008 +0000
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import optparse
+import os
+import sys
+
+try:
+    set
+except NameError:
+    from sets import Set as set     # For Python 2.3
+
+
+def compile_messages(locale=None):
+    basedirs = (os.path.join('conf', 'locale'), 'locale')
+    if os.environ.get('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'):
+        from django.conf import settings
+        basedirs += settings.LOCALE_PATHS
+
+    # Gather existing directories.
+    basedirs = set(map(os.path.abspath, filter(os.path.isdir, basedirs)))
+
+    if not basedirs:
+        print "This script should be run from the Django SVN tree or your project or app tree, or with the settings module specified."
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    for basedir in basedirs:
+        if locale:
+            basedir = os.path.join(basedir, locale, 'LC_MESSAGES')
+        compile_messages_in_dir(basedir)
+
+def compile_messages_in_dir(basedir):
+    for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(basedir):
+        for f in filenames:
+            if f.endswith('.po'):
+                sys.stderr.write('processing file %s in %s\n' % (f, dirpath))
+                pf = os.path.splitext(os.path.join(dirpath, f))[0]
+                # Store the names of the .mo and .po files in an environment
+                # variable, rather than doing a string replacement into the
+                # command, so that we can take advantage of shell quoting, to
+                # quote any malicious characters/escaping.
+                # See http://cyberelk.net/tim/articles/cmdline/ar01s02.html
+                os.environ['djangocompilemo'] = pf + '.mo'
+                os.environ['djangocompilepo'] = pf + '.po'
+                if sys.platform == 'win32': # Different shell-variable syntax
+                    cmd = 'msgfmt --check-format -o "%djangocompilemo%" "%djangocompilepo%"'
+                else:
+                    cmd = 'msgfmt --check-format -o "$djangocompilemo" "$djangocompilepo"'
+                os.system(cmd)
+
+def main():
+    parser = optparse.OptionParser()
+    parser.add_option('-l', '--locale', dest='locale',
+            help="The locale to process. Default is to process all.")
+    parser.add_option('--settings',
+        help='Python path to settings module, e.g. "myproject.settings". If provided, all LOCALE_PATHS will be processed. If this isn\'t provided, the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable will be checked as well.')
+    options, args = parser.parse_args()
+    if len(args):
+        parser.error("This program takes no arguments")
+    if options.settings:
+        os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = options.settings
+    compile_messages(options.locale)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()