<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>6.25.3.3 Changing languages on the fly</title> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="6.25.3.3 Changing languages on the fly"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="lib"> <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset="> <link rel="STYLESHEET" href="lib.css"> <link rel="first" href="lib.html"> <link rel="contents" href="contents.html" title="Contents"> <link rel="index" href="genindex.html" title="Index"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node210.html"> <LINK REL="previous" HREF="node208.html"> <LINK REL="up" HREF="node206.html"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node210.html"> </head> <body> <DIV CLASS="navigation"> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td><A HREF="node208.html"><img src="../icons/previous.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Previous Page" width="32"></A></td> <td><A HREF="node206.html"><img src="../icons/up.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Up One Level" width="32"></A></td> <td><A HREF="node210.html"><img src="../icons/next.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Next Page" width="32"></A></td> <td align="center" width="100%">Python Library Reference</td> <td><A href="contents.html"><img src="../icons/contents.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Contents" width="32"></A></td> <td><a href="modindex.html" title="Module Index"><img src="../icons/modules.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Module Index" width="32"></a></td> <td><A href="genindex.html"><img src="../icons/index.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Index" width="32"></A></td> </tr></table> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" HREF="node208.html">6.25.3.2 Localizing your application</A> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" HREF="node206.html">6.25.3 Internationalizing your programs</A> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" HREF="node210.html">6.25.3.4 Deferred translations</A> <br><hr> </DIV> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H3><A NAME="SECTION0082533000000000000000"> 6.25.3.3 Changing languages on the fly</A> </H3> <P> If your program needs to support many languages at the same time, you may want to create multiple translation instances and then switch between them explicitly, like so: <P> <dl><dd><pre class="verbatim"> import gettext lang1 = gettext.translation(languages=['en']) lang2 = gettext.translation(languages=['fr']) lang3 = gettext.translation(languages=['de']) # start by using language1 lang1.install() # ... time goes by, user selects language 2 lang2.install() # ... more time goes by, user selects language 3 lang3.install() </pre></dl> <P> <DIV CLASS="navigation"> <p><hr> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td><A HREF="node208.html"><img src="../icons/previous.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Previous Page" width="32"></A></td> <td><A HREF="node206.html"><img src="../icons/up.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Up One Level" width="32"></A></td> <td><A HREF="node210.html"><img src="../icons/next.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Next Page" width="32"></A></td> <td align="center" width="100%">Python Library Reference</td> <td><A href="contents.html"><img src="../icons/contents.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Contents" width="32"></A></td> <td><a href="modindex.html" title="Module Index"><img src="../icons/modules.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Module Index" width="32"></a></td> <td><A href="genindex.html"><img src="../icons/index.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Index" width="32"></A></td> </tr></table> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" HREF="node208.html">6.25.3.2 Localizing your application</A> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" HREF="node206.html">6.25.3 Internationalizing your programs</A> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" HREF="node210.html">6.25.3.4 Deferred translations</A> <hr> <span class="release-info">Release 2.2, documentation updated on December 21, 2001.</span> </DIV> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <ADDRESS> See <i><a href="about.html">About this document...</a></i> for information on suggesting changes. </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>
