create.py

""" Creating localization directories in an Andorid project

The script creates the required directories and copies the default strings.xml
file to each of them.
Those xml files can later be editted.
"""

from path import path

VALUES = "values"
languages = ["ar", "fr", "de", "gr", "he", "it", "jp", "kr", "pt", "ru",
             "es", "sv", "tr", "cn", ]

val_file = path("values/strings.xml")
for lang in languages:
    lang_dir = path(VALUES + '-' + lang)
    try:
        lang_dir.mkdir()
        print "created ", lang_dir
    except:
        pass
    try:
        path.copy(val_file, lang_dir)
        print "copied ", val_file, "to", lang_dir
    except Exception, e:
        raise e
    print