Today I got a request to take a .po file, and copy each msgid (the translation string identifier) to the msgstr (the translated text), since the msgids were already english strings. Here's how I did this using polib and Python:
po_in = polib.pofile(input_file) for entry in po_in: entry.msgstr = entry.msgid po_in.save(output_file)
Very straightforward! Kudos to the people who developed this library.
