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Added more useful output on overwrite fail

ListifyRobot fails on non-empty page for output, adding a more
helpful error message.

Bug: T198780
Change-Id: I430b2e6983028cbd76a7fb742e65a4a170fecb20
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M scripts/category.py
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/category.py b/scripts/category.py
index 6b90d37..b6de801 100755
--- a/scripts/category.py
+++ b/scripts/category.py
@@ -944,8 +944,10 @@
                 else:
                     listString += "*[[:%s]]\n" % article.title()
         if self.list.exists() and not self.overwrite:
-            pywikibot.output(u'Page %s already exists, aborting.'
-                             % self.list.title())
+            pywikibot.output(
+                'Page {} already exists, aborting.\n'
+                'Use -overwrite option to overwrite the output page.'
+                .format(self.list.title()))
         else:
             self.list.put(listString, summary=self.editSummary)
 

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