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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2007 Edgewall Software
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
+# you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
+# are also available at http://babel.edgewall.org/wiki/License.
+#
+# This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
+# individuals. For the exact contribution history, see the revision
+# history and logs, available at http://babel.edgewall.org/log/.
+
+import os
+import pickle
+from pprint import pprint
+import sys
+
+import babel
+
+dirname = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(babel.__file__))
+filename = os.path.join(dirname, 'global.dat')
+fileobj = open(filename, 'rb')
+try:
+    data = pickle.load(fileobj)
+finally:
+    fileobj.close()
+
+if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+    pprint(data.get(sys.argv[1]))
+else:
+    pprint(data)