Open Stack

I noticed this today:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/219768/

And it got me thinking about something I've wondered before - why do we 
even use _() in python-novaclient?  It doesn't have any .po files for 
babel message translation, it has no babel config, there is nothing in 
setup.cfg about extracting messages and compiling them into .mo's, there 
is nothing on Transifex for python-novaclient, etc.

Is there a way to change your locale and get translated output in nova 
CLIs?  I didn't find anything in docs from a quick google search.

Comparing to python-openstackclient, that does have a babel config and 
some locale po files in tree, at least for de and zh_TW.

So if this doesn't work in python-novaclient, do we need any of the i18n 
code in there?  It doesn't really hurt, but it seems pointless to push 
changes for it or try to keep user-facing messages in mind in the code.

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann