Execute the command below to get known where you're python-gettext module is:
$ python -c "import gettext; print gettext.__file__" /usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py
Then open that file and find lines in translation() function:
for mofile in mofiles:
key = os.path.abspath(mofile)
t = _translations.get(key)
if t is None:
t = _translations.setdefault(key, class_(open(mofile, 'rb')))
Replace it with:
for mofile in mofiles:
key = os.path.abspath(mofile)
t = _translations.get(key)
t = None # new line
if t is None:
t = _translations.setdefault(key, class_(open(mofile, 'rb')))
It will simply disable gettext's cache for your debugging purposes. I wouldn't recomend this patch to use in production.
However if you use django framework it won't solve your caching problems. I wonder to know why but django uses its own gettext caching layer. To disable it simply replace in file utils/translation/trans_real.py:
def translation(language):
"""
Returns a translation object.
This translation object will be constructed out of multiple GNUTranslations
objects by merging their catalogs. It will construct a object for the
requested language and add a fallback to the default language, if it's
different from the requested language.
"""
global _translations
t = _translations.get(language, None)
if t is not None:
return t
with:
def translation(language):
"""
Returns a translation object.
This translation object will be constructed out of multiple GNUTranslations
objects by merging their catalogs. It will construct a object for the
requested language and add a fallback to the default language, if it's
different from the requested language.
"""
global _translations
t = _translations.get(language, None)
t = None # new line
if t is not None:
return t
Patches available here: for gettext.py and for trans_real.py
