babel.messages.catalog Namespace Reference

Classes
class	Catalog
class	Message
class	TranslationError

Functions
	get_close_matches (word, possibilities, n=3, cutoff=0.6)
bool	_has_python_brace_format (str string)
datetime.datetime	_parse_datetime_header (str value)
dict[str, str]	parse_separated_header (str value)
str	_force_text (str|bytes s, str encoding='utf-8', str errors='strict')

Variables
TypeAlias	_MessageID = str | tuple[str, ...] | list[str]
	PYTHON_FORMAT = re.compile(, re.VERBOSE)
str	DEFAULT_HEADER

Detailed Description

    babel.messages.catalog
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Data structures for message catalogs.

    :copyright: (c) 2013-2025 by the Babel Team.
    :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.

Function Documentation

get_close_matches()

babel.messages.catalog.get_close_matches	(		word,
			possibilities,
			n = 3,
			cutoff = 0.6
	)

A modified version of ``difflib.get_close_matches``.

It just passes ``autojunk=False`` to the ``SequenceMatcher``, to work
around https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/90825.

Variable Documentation

DEFAULT_HEADER

str babel.messages.catalog.DEFAULT_HEADER

Initial value:

=  """\
# Translations template for PROJECT.
# Copyright (C) YEAR ORGANIZATION
# This file is distributed under the same license as the PROJECT project.
# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
#"""