From 995c18609c4e68dd6b8450f8b7206952a78f189d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Lehmann <mail@robertlehmann.de>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 09:35:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Write message catalogs to POT files.

---
 sphinx/builders/intl.py | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sphinx/builders/intl.py b/sphinx/builders/intl.py
index 9373baae8..c40fff266 100644
--- a/sphinx/builders/intl.py
+++ b/sphinx/builders/intl.py
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 """
 
 import collections
+from os import path
+
 from docutils import nodes
 
 from sphinx.builders import Builder
@@ -36,4 +38,8 @@ class MessageCatalogBuilder(Builder):
             catalog.append(msg)
 
     def finish(self):
-        return
+        for section, messages in self.catalogs.iteritems():
+            pofile = open(path.join(self.outdir, '%s.pot' % section), 'w')
+            for message in messages:
+                pomsg = u'msgid "%s"\nmsgstr ""\n\n' % message
+                pofile.write(pomsg.encode('utf-8'))