We have quite recently removed the tools package and the tools from within.
I now needed to use the pygettext.py (mentioned in the docs[1]) and it is gone.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/gettext.html


This is a list of things that python2-tools has, with explanations:

$ rpm -ql python2-tools | grep ^/usr/bin | grep -v 2
/usr/bin/idle                 moved to python3-idle
/usr/bin/msgfmt.py            GONE
/usr/bin/pygettext.py         GONE
/usr/bin/pynche               GONE
/usr/bin/smtpd.py             is in /usr/lib64/python3.6/smtpd.py

While I doubt the usefulness of pynche; msgfmt.py and pygettext.py are mentioned in tutorials, docs, stack overflow answers, etc.

I think we should reintroduce msgfmt3{,.6}.py and pygettext3{,.6}.py in /usr/bin trough python3-devel. Also, we might want to talk to upstream to make this work trough python3 -m gettext (or python3 -m gettext.msgfmt respectively).

Thoughts?