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+import inspect
+import logging
+
+from PyQt4.QtCore import QCoreApplication
+from PyQt4.QtCore import QLocale
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+"""
+here I could not do all that I wanted.
+the context is not getting passed to the xml file.
+Looks like pylupdate4 is somehow a hack that does not
+parse too well the python ast.
+I guess we could generate the xml for ourselves as a last recourse.
+"""
+
+# XXX BIG NOTE:
+# RESIST the temptation to get the translate function
+# more compact, or have the Context argument passed as a variable
+# Its name HAS to be explicit due to how the pylupdate parser
+# works.
+
+
+qtTranslate = QCoreApplication.translate
+
+
+def translate(*args, **kwargs):
+ """
+ our magic function.
+ translate(Context, text, comment)
+ """
+ if len(args) == 1:
+ obj = args[0]
+ if isinstance(obj, LEAPTranslatable) and hasattr(obj, 'tr'):
+ return obj.tr()
+
+ klsname = None
+ try:
+ # get class value from instance
+ # using live object inspection
+ prev_frame = inspect.stack()[1][0]
+ locals_ = inspect.getargvalues(prev_frame).locals
+ self = locals_.get('self')
+ if self:
+
+ # Trying to get the class name
+ # but this is useless, the parser
+ # has already got the context.
+ klsname = self.__class__.__name__
+ #print 'KLSNAME -- ', klsname
+ except:
+ logger.error('error getting stack frame')
+
+ if klsname and len(args) == 1:
+ nargs = (klsname,) + args
+ return qtTranslate(*nargs)
+
+ else:
+ return qtTranslate(*args)
+
+
+class LEAPTranslatable(dict):
+ """
+ An extended dict that implements a .tr method
+ so it can be translated on the fly by our
+ magic translate method
+ """
+
+ try:
+ locale = str(QLocale.system().name()).split('_')[0]
+ except:
+ logger.warning("could not get system locale!")
+ print "could not get system locale!"
+ locale = "en"
+
+ def tr(self, to=None):
+ if not to:
+ to = self.locale
+ _tr = self.get(to, None)
+ if not _tr:
+ _tr = self.get("en", None)
+ return _tr