Translating django.po files using external tools

analyze.py

#!/usr/bin/python

a = open("django.po")
h = [x.strip() for x in a.readlines()]
a.close()


counter = 0
while counter < len(h):
    pre = counter
    line = h[counter]
    if line.startswith("msgid "):
        counter += 1
        while not h[counter].startswith("msgstr "):
            counter += 1
        if h[counter] == "msgstr \"\"" and not h[counter+1].startswith('"'):
            print(counter, h[pre][7:-1])
    counter += 1

save.py

#!/usr/bin/python

a = open("django.po")
h = [x.strip() for x in a.readlines()]
a.close()

a = open("load.txt")
t = [x.strip() for x in a.readlines()]
a.close()


for line in t:
    # just place the translated string
    num = int(line.split(" ")[0])+1
    txt = " ".join(line.split(" ")[1:])
    if txt.strip():
        h[num] = "msgstr \"%s\"" % txt

a = open("django.po.new", "w")
for line in h:
    a.write(line)
    a.write("\n")
a.close()