diff -r 84e6e898e6c5 -r 33f727efa7c4 VirtualMailManager/__init__.py
--- a/VirtualMailManager/__init__.py	Wed Feb 24 05:48:15 2010 +0000
+++ b/VirtualMailManager/__init__.py	Thu Feb 25 17:56:08 2010 +0000
@@ -18,13 +18,12 @@
 from VirtualMailManager.constants.ERROR import \
      DOMAIN_INVALID, DOMAIN_TOO_LONG, LOCALPART_INVALID, LOCALPART_TOO_LONG, \
      NOT_EXECUTABLE, NO_SUCH_BINARY, NO_SUCH_DIRECTORY
-from VirtualMailManager.constants.VERSION import *
+from VirtualMailManager.constants.version import __author__, __date__, \
+     __version__
 from VirtualMailManager.Exceptions import VMMException
 
 
 __all__ = [
-    # imported modules
-    'os', 're', 'locale',
     # version information from VERSION
     '__author__', '__date__', '__version__',
     # defined stuff
@@ -41,16 +40,14 @@
     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'C')
 ENCODING = locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET)
 
-RE_DOMAIN = r"^(?:[a-z0-9-]{1,63}\.){1,}[a-z]{2,6}$"
-RE_LOCALPART = r"[^\w!#$%&'\*\+-\.\/=?^_`{\|}~]"
+# there may be many domain and e-mail address checks
+RE_DOMAIN = re.compile(r"^(?:[a-z0-9-]{1,63}\.){1,}[a-z]{2,6}$")
+RE_LOCALPART = re.compile(r"[^\w!#$%&'\*\+-\.\/=?^_`{\|}~]")
+
+gettext.install('vmm', '/usr/local/share/locale', unicode=1)
 
 
-# there may be many domain and e-mail address checks
-re_obj_domain = re.compile(RE_DOMAIN)
-re_obj_localpart = re.compile(RE_LOCALPART)
-
-
-gettext.install('vmm', '/usr/local/share/locale', unicode=1)
+_ = lambda msg: msg
 
 
 def get_unicode(string):
@@ -73,6 +70,7 @@
     """Checks if `path` is a directory.
 
     Throws a `VMMException` if `path` is not a directory.
+
     """
     path = expand_path(path)
     if not os.path.isdir(path):
@@ -86,6 +84,7 @@
 
     Throws a `VMMException` if the `binary` isn't a file or is not
     executable.
+
     """
     binary = expand_path(binary)
     if not os.path.isfile(binary):
@@ -110,16 +109,18 @@
 def check_domainname(domainname):
     """Returns the validated domain name `domainname`.
 
-    It also converts the name of the domain from IDN to ASCII, if necessary.
+    It also converts the name of the domain from IDN to ASCII, if
+    necessary.
 
-    Throws an `VMMException`, if the domain name is too long or doesn't look
-    like a valid domain name (label.label.label).
+    Throws an `VMMException`, if the domain name is too long or doesn't
+    look like a valid domain name (label.label.label).
+
     """
-    if not re_obj_domain.match(domainname):
+    if not RE_DOMAIN.match(domainname):
         domainname = idn2ascii(domainname)
     if len(domainname) > 255:
         raise VMMException(_(u'The domain name is too long'), DOMAIN_TOO_LONG)
-    if not re_obj_domain.match(domainname):
+    if not RE_DOMAIN.match(domainname):
         raise VMMException(_(u'The domain name %r is invalid') % domainname,
                            DOMAIN_INVALID)
     return domainname
@@ -130,11 +131,12 @@
 
     Throws a `VMMException` if the local-part is too long or contains
     invalid characters.
+
     """
     if len(localpart) > 64:
         raise VMMException(_(u'The local-part %r is too long') % localpart,
                            LOCALPART_TOO_LONG)
-    invalid_chars = set(re_obj_localpart.findall(localpart))
+    invalid_chars = set(RE_LOCALPART.findall(localpart))
     if invalid_chars:
         i_chars = u''.join((u'"%s" ' % c for c in invalid_chars))
         raise VMMException(_(u"The local-part %(l_part)r contains invalid \
@@ -142,3 +144,6 @@
                            {'l_part': localpart, 'i_chars': i_chars},
                            LOCALPART_INVALID)
     return localpart
+
+
+del _