Python I18N tools and Mailman

Hello all,

I have subscribed you all to a new mailing list I've set up, called
mailman-i18n <at> python.org.  I apologize for this breach of etiquette,
but it's late at night and I wanted to have a more formal way of
tracking this discussion.  If any of you want to opt out, or change
your subscription address, let me know directly or go through the
Mailman URL that you should have already received in your welcome
message.

I've included you on this list because you've all been involved in
helping to internationalize Mailman <www.list.org>, whether you're
aware of it or not. :) We have a lot of overlap in some of Python I18N
tools, and I'd love to somehow converge on a single set of tools and
modules that we can recommend for Python hackers.  If we can do this,
I believe I can convince Guido to add them to the standard Python
distribution for 1.6.  Mailman will make a good first (afaik) test
case in using this suite of tools.

Some background to bring you all up to speed.  This is my current
understanding, so please correct any errors!

There's been quite a bit of work on internationalizing Mailman.  Juan
Carlos and Victoriano have done a significant amount of work on this,
with lots of input and feedback from Mads.  We've had back-and-forths
on the design, which I believe we now all agree on.  They have a
working prototype and it's possible that I'll be integrating the first
set of I18N patches into Mailman over the Xmas holiday.

I wrote a pygettext.py which creates .pot files via Python's tokenize