Internationalization with gettext

We're trying to translate our templates using Python's gettext module.

>From reading
http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/docs/users_guide_html_multipage/tips.gettext.
html
it appears that I need to mark text for translation like this:

$_("This text will be translated")
or like this
$ngettext("This text will be translated")

The templates with marked text compile. Running xgettext (or pygettext.py )
on the compiled template successfully creates the .pot files, but the files
does not contain the marked strings.

Also, running the template produces the following error:

  File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Cheetah-2.4.4-py2.4-linux-i686.egg/C
heetah/NameMapper.py", line 246, in valueFromSearchList
    _raiseNotFoundException(key, searchList)
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Cheetah-2.4.4-py2.4-linux-i686.egg/C
heetah/NameMapper.py", line 167, in _raiseNotFoundException
    raise NotFound(excString)
NotFound: cannot find '_'

which means it cannot find _() function.
Can anybody show me how to mark text for translation?

I am using Cheetah 2.4.4 for these tests. We have Cheetah 0.9.15 in
production, but I believe that 0.9.15 does not have gettext functionality at
all- is that correct?


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