[Pywikibot-commits] [Gerrit] document changes in standards for command-line arguments - change (pywikibot/core)

jenkins-bot has submitted this change and it was merged. Change subject: document changes in standards for command-line arguments ...................................................................... document changes in standards for command-line arguments scripts that use unnamed arguments to build page titles (often through lists named titleParts or pageTitle) are going to change: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikipedia-l/2014-June/008905.html also fixed a typo Change-Id: I3d0c64bd0f4aac2a2c3cf375d84e77cb364868ad --- M README-conversion.txt 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Approvals: John Vandenberg: Looks good to me, approved jenkins-bot: Verified diff --git a/README-conversion.txt b/README-conversion.txt index c034db8..b344c33 100644 --- a/README-conversion.txt +++ b/README-conversion.txt @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ pwb.py maintenance/compat2core [<script to convert>] and follow the instructions and hints. -== Python librairies == +== Python libraries == [Note: the goal will be to package pywikibot with setuptools easy_install, so that these dependencies will be loaded automatically when the package is @@ -128,4 +128,16 @@ - contributions(): returns a pywikibot.Timestamp object instead of a Mediawiki one +=== Command-line arguments === + +Scripts that supported unnamed arguments as titles of pages on which to work, +now require that those titles be written as standard pagegenerators, e.g.: + + python script.py -page:"A title" + +while unlink.py and other scripts that required page titles as main arguments +now need only that the titles be wrapped in quotes, as: + + python unlink.py "A title" + # MORE TO COME # -- To view, visit https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/147420 To unsubscribe, visit https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/settings Gerrit-MessageType: merged Gerrit-Change-Id: I3d0c64bd0f4aac2a2c3cf375d84e77cb364868ad Gerrit-PatchSet: 1 Gerrit-Project: pywikibot/core Gerrit-Branch: master Gerrit-Owner: Ricordisamoa &lt;ricordisamoa(a)openmailbox.org&gt; Gerrit-Reviewer: John Vandenberg &lt;jayvdb(a)gmail.com&gt; Gerrit-Reviewer: Ladsgroup &lt;ladsgroup(a)gmail.com&gt; Gerrit-Reviewer: Merlijn van Deen &lt;valhallasw(a)arctus.nl&gt; Gerrit-Reviewer: Xqt &lt;info(a)gno.de&gt; Gerrit-Reviewer: jenkins-bot <>