portage.localization module

portage.localization._(mystr)

Always returns unicode, regardless of the input type. This is helpful for avoiding UnicodeDecodeError from __str__() with Python 2, by ensuring that string format operations invoke __unicode__() instead of __str__().

portage.localization.localization_example()

portage.localization.localized_size(num_bytes)

Return pretty localized size string for num_bytes size (given in bytes). The output will be in kibibytes.