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+
+import sys, glob, re
+
+import mechanize
+
+URL = 'http://translate.google.com/translate_t?text=%(text)s&langpair=en|%(lang)s&oe=UTF8'
+
+def browser():
+    opener = mechanize.Browser()
+    opener.set_handle_refresh(True)
+    opener.set_handle_robots(False)
+    opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; i686 Linux; en_US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4')]
+    return opener
+
+
+class PoFile(object):
+    
+    SANITIZE = re.compile(r'&|<[^<>]+>|\%')
+    STRING   = re.compile(r'"(.*)"')
+    
+    def __init__(self, po_file):
+        self.po_file = open(po_file, 'r+b')
+        self.browser = browser()
+        self.entries = []
+        self.read()
+        
+    def sanitize_line(self, line):
+        return self.SANITIZE.sub(line)
+    
+    def read(self):
+        translated_lines = []
+        self.po_file.seek(0)
+        
+        ID  = 0
+        STR = 1
+        WHR = 2
+        
+        mode = None
+        where, msgid, msgstr, fuzzy = [], [], [], False
+        
+        for line in self.po_file.readlines():
+            prev_mode = mode
+            if line.startswith('#:'):
+                mode = WHR
+            elif line.startswith('msgid'):
+                mode = ID
+            elif line.startswith('msgstr'):
+                mode = STR
+            elif line.startswith('#,'):
+                fuzzy = True
+                continue
+            elif line.startswith('#') or not line.strip():
+                mode = None 
+            
+                
+            if mode != prev_mode:
+                if prev_mode == STR:
+                    self.add_entry(where, fuzzy, msgid, msgstr)
+                    where, msgid, msgstr, fuzzy = [], [], [], False
+                    
+            if mode == WHR:
+                where.append(line[2:].strip())
+            elif mode == ID:
+                msgid.append(self.get_string(line))
+            elif mode == STR:
+                msgstr.append(self.get_string(line))
+            elif mode == None:
+                self.add_line(line)    
+            
+    def get_string(self, line):
+        return self.STRING.search(line).group(1)
+    
+    def add_line(self, line):
+        self.entries.append(line.strip())
+        
+    def add_entry(self, where, fuzzy, msgid, msgstr):
+        self.entries.append(Entry(where, fuzzy, msgid, msgstr))
+        
+    def __str__(self):
+        return '\n'.join([str(i) for i in self.entries]) + '\n'
+        
+        
+class Entry(object):
+    
+    def __init__(self, where, fuzzy, msgid, msgstr, encoding='utf-8'):
+        self.fuzzy  = fuzzy
+        self.where  = [i.decode(encoding) for i in where]
+        self.msgid  = [i.decode(encoding) for i in msgid]
+        self.msgstr = [i.decode(encoding) for i in msgstr]
+        self.encoding = encoding 
+        
+    def __str__(self):
+        ans = []
+        for line in self.where:
+            ans.append('#: ' + line.encode(self.encoding))
+        if self.fuzzy:
+            ans.append('#, fuzzy')
+        first = True
+        for line in self.msgid:
+            prefix = 'msgid ' if first else ''
+            ans.append(prefix + '"%s"'%line.encode(self.encoding))
+            first = False
+        first = True
+        for line in self.msgstr:
+            prefix = 'msgstr ' if first else ''
+            ans.append(prefix + '"%s"'%line.encode(self.encoding))
+            first = False
+        return '\n'.join(ans)
+            
+        
+
+def main():
+    po_files = glob.glob('*.po')
+    for po_file in po_files:
+        PoFile(po_file)
+    pass
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    pof = PoFile('de.po')
+    open('/tmp/de.po', 'wb').write(str(pof))
+    #sys.exit(main())
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