as far as i can tell, the raison-d'ĂȘtre of po4a is that the gettext tools
were only made for C/C++, so there needed a way to reproduce the
functionality provided by gettext for documentation and various other
formats.
for C and C++, gettext is perfect. Python can be gettext-ized quite well
too:
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http://docs.python.org/library/gettext.html>
poy