def read_po(fileobj, locale=None, domain=None, ignore_obsolete=False):
    catalog = Catalog(locale=locale, domain=domain)

    counter = [0]
    offset = [0]
    messages = []
    translations = []
    locations = []
    flags = []
    user_comments = []
    auto_comments = []
    obsolete = [False]
    context = []
    in_msgid = [False]
    in_msgstr = [False]
    in_msgctxt = [False]

    def _add_message():
        translations.sort()
        if len(messages) > 1:
            msgid = tuple([denormalize(m) for m in messages])
        else:
            msgid = denormalize(messages[0])
        if isinstance(msgid, (list, tuple)):
            string = []
            for idx in range(catalog.num_plurals):
                try:
                    string.append(translations[idx])
                except IndexError:
                    string.append((idx, ''))
            string = tuple([denormalize(t[1]) for t in string])
        else:
            string = denormalize(translations[0][1])
        if context:
            msgctxt = denormalize('\n'.join(context))
        else:
            msgctxt = None
        message = Message(msgid, string, list(locations), set(flags),
                          auto_comments, user_comments, lineno=offset[0] + 1,
                          context=msgctxt)
        if obsolete[0]:
            if not ignore_obsolete:
                catalog.obsolete[msgid] = message
        else:
            catalog[msgid] = message
        del messages[:]; del translations[:]; del context[:]; del locations[:];
        del flags[:]; del auto_comments[:]; del user_comments[:];
        obsolete[0] = False
        counter[0] += 1

    def _process_message_line(lineno, line):
        if line.startswith('msgid_plural'):
            in_msgid[0] = True
            msg = line[12:].lstrip()
            messages.append(msg)
        elif line.startswith('msgid'):
            in_msgid[0] = True
            offset[0] = lineno
            txt = line[5:].lstrip()
            if messages:
                _add_message()
            messages.append(txt)
        elif line.startswith('msgstr'):
            in_msgid[0] = False
            in_msgstr[0] = True
            msg = line[6:].lstrip()
            if msg.startswith('['):
                idx, msg = msg[1:].split(']')
                translations.append([int(idx), msg.lstrip()])
            else:
                translations.append([0, msg])
        elif line.startswith('msgctxt'):
            if messages:
                _add_message()
            in_msgid[0] = in_msgstr[0] = False
            context.append(line[7:].lstrip())
        elif line.startswith('"'):
            if in_msgid[0]:
                messages[-1] += u'\n' + line.rstrip()
            elif in_msgstr[0]:
                translations[-1][1] += u'\n' + line.rstrip()
            elif in_msgctxt[0]:
                context.append(line.rstrip())

    for lineno, line in enumerate(fileobj.readlines()):
        line = line.strip()
        if not isinstance(line, unicode):
            line = line.decode(catalog.charset)
        if line.startswith('#'):
            in_msgid[0] = in_msgstr[0] = False
            if messages and translations:
                _add_message()
            if line[1:].startswith(':'):
                for location in line[2:].lstrip().split():
                    pos = location.rfind(':')
                    if pos >= 0:
                        try:
                            lineno = int(location[pos + 1:])
                        except ValueError:
                            continue
                        locations.append((location[:pos], lineno))
            elif line[1:].startswith(','):
                for flag in line[2:].lstrip().split(','):
                    flags.append(flag.strip())
            elif line[1:].startswith('~'):
                obsolete[0] = True
                _process_message_line(lineno, line[2:].lstrip())
            elif line[1:].startswith('.'):
                # These are called auto-comments
                comment = line[2:].strip()
                if comment: # Just check that we're not adding empty comments
                    auto_comments.append(comment)
            else:
                # These are called user comments
                user_comments.append(line[1:].strip())
        else:
            _process_message_line(lineno, line)

    if messages:
        _add_message()

    # No actual messages found, but there was some info in comments, from which
    # we'll construct an empty header message
    elif not counter[0] and (flags or user_comments or auto_comments):
        messages.append(u'')
        translations.append([0, u''])
        _add_message()

    return catalog
Read messages from a ``gettext`` PO (portable object) file from the given
dataset/ETHPy150Open IanLewis/kay/kay/lib/babel/messages/pofile.py/read_po