babel.messages.mofile.read_mo

        def read_mo(fileobj):
    """Read a binary MO file from the given file-like object and return a
    corresponding `Catalog` object.

    :param fileobj: the file-like object to read the MO file from

    :note: The implementation of this function is heavily based on the
           ``GNUTranslations._parse`` method of the ``gettext`` module in the
           standard library.
    """
    catalog = Catalog()
    headers = {}

    filename = getattr(fileobj, 'name', '')

    buf = fileobj.read()
    buflen = len(buf)
    unpack = struct.unpack

    # Parse the .mo file header, which consists of 5 little endian 32
    # bit words.
    magic = unpack('4I', buf[4:20])
        ii = '>II'
    else:
        raise IOError(0, 'Bad magic number', filename)

    # Now put all messages from the .mo file buffer into the catalog
    # dictionary
    for i in range_type(0, msgcount):
        mlen, moff = unpack(ii, buf[origidx:origidx + 8])
        mend = moff + mlen
        tlen, toff = unpack(ii, buf[transidx:transidx + 8])
        tend = toff + tlen
        if mend < buflen and tend < buflen:
            msg = buf[moff:mend]
            tmsg = buf[toff:tend]
        else:
            raise IOError(0, 'File is corrupt', filename)

        # See if we're looking at GNU .mo conventions for metadata
        if mlen == 0:
            # Catalog description
            lastkey = key = None
            for item in tmsg.splitlines():
                item = item.strip()
                if not item:
                    continue
                if b':' in item:
                    key, value = item.split(b':', 1)
                    lastkey = key = key.strip().lower()
                    headers[key] = value.strip()
                elif lastkey:
                    headers[lastkey] += b'\n' + item

        if b'\x04' in msg: # context
            ctxt, msg = msg.split(b'\x04')
        else:
            ctxt = None

        if b'\x00' in msg: # plural forms
            msg = msg.split(b'\x00')
            tmsg = tmsg.split(b'\x00')
            if catalog.charset:
                msg = [x.decode(catalog.charset) for x in msg]
                tmsg = [x.decode(catalog.charset) for x in tmsg]
        else:
            if catalog.charset:
                msg = msg.decode(catalog.charset)
                tmsg = tmsg.decode(catalog.charset)
        catalog[msg] = Message(msg, tmsg, context=ctxt)

        # advance to next entry in the seek tables
        origidx += 8
        transidx += 8

    catalog.mime_headers = headers.items()
    return catalog