Parsing gettext `.po` files with python

Question

I need to extract messages from .po files. Is there a Python module to do that? I wrote a parser, but it depends on platform (\r\n vs. \n).

Is there a better way to do this?

Answer 1

Babel includes a .po files parser written in Python:

http://babel.edgewall.org/

The built-in gettext module works only with binary .mo files.