Hi!
My old problem is that repalce.py can't write the pages to work on into a
file on my disk. I have used a modificated version for years that does no
changes but writes the title of the involved pages to a subpage on Wikipedia
in automated mode, and then I can make the replacements from that page much
more quickly than directly from dump or living Wikipedia. This is slow and
generates a plenty of dummy edits.
In other words, replace.py has a tool to get the titles from a file (-file)
or from a wikipage (-links), but has no tool to generate this file.
Now I am ready to rewrite it. This way we can start it and the bot will find
all the possible articles to work on and save the titles without editing
Wikipedia (and without artificial delay), meanwhile we can have the lunch or
run a marathon or sleep. Then we make the replacements from this with -file.
My idea is that replace.py should have two new parameters:
-save writes the results into a new file instead of editing articles. It
overwrites existing file without notice.
-saveappend writes into a file or appends to the existing one.
OR:
-save writes and appends (primary mode)
-savenew writes and overwrites
The help is here:
http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html#reading-and-writing-unicode-data
So we have to import codecs.
My script is:
articles=codecs.open('cikkek.txt','a',encoding='utf-8')
...
tutuzuzu=u'# %s\n' %page.aslink() <-- needs rewrite to the new syntax
articles.write(unicode(tutuzuzu)) <-- needs further testing, if nicode() is
really needed
articles.flush()
It works fine except '\n' is a unix-styled newline that has to be converted
by lfcr.py in order to make it readable with notepad.exe.
This is with constant filename, that should be developed to get from command
line.
Your opinions before I begin?
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Bináris
I want to read a special page with Page.get(). The message is:
File "C:\Program Files\Pywikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 601, in get
raise NoPage('%s is in the Special namespace!' % self.aslink())
pywikibot.exceptions.NoPage
What is the solution?
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Bináris
Hello all,
*As several people have mentioned they had trouble starting with the rewrite
branch, I decided to do a step-by-step log of installing the rewrite in a
way that is good for developing -- this means you are able to edit the
framework files, while not inflicting any changes on other users (or other
bots you run!) of the system. By using setup.py develop, edits you make to
the framework will immediately be used (no need to setup.py install them),
but only within the virtualenv.*
*This is the windows version of my earlier email*
*
*
I do not run python on windows, so this is a tutorial that starts with
installing python. It's a bit rougher than the unix one, as I did not want
to spend too much time on it.
1. Install python 2.7
http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.1/python-2.7.1.msi<http://python.org/download/>
(do
*not* use the 64-bit version, due to http://bugs.python.org/issue6792 )
2. Install Setuptools
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#files
3. Install Virtualenv
start/run: cmd
c:\Python27\Scripts\easy_install.exe virtualenv
4. create a virtualenv for pwb
C:\Users\valhallasw>c:\Python27\Scripts\virtualenv.exe pywikibot
New python executable in pywikibot\Scripts\python.exe
Installing setuptools.....................done.
5. Go to C:\Users\valhallasw\pywikibot and use tortoisesvn to get the
rewrite
6. create a shortcut to cmd /k
c:\users\valhallasw\pywikibot\scripts\activate.bat
with working path C:\Users\valhallasw\pywikibot\rewrite
7. Use the shortcut. You now have a new cmd.exe window
8. python setup.py develop
Your default user directory is
"C:\Users\valhallasw\AppData\Roaming\pywikibot"
How to proceed? ([K]eep [c]hange)
change, to c:\users\valhallasw\pywikibot\conf\
Answer 'y' to the warning prompt (not 'yes')
Do you want to copy files: y
[note: I copied my unix user-config.py to c:\users\valhallasw\pywikibot]
Path to existing wikipedia.py? C:\Users\valhallasw\pywikibot
NOTE: user-config.py already exists in the directory
Create user-fixes.py file? ([y]es, [N]o) n
(pywikibot) C:\Users\valhallasw\pywikibot\rewrite>echo SET
PYWIKIBOT2_DIR=c:\users\valhallasw\pywikibot\conf>> ..\Scripts\activate.bat
(DON'T put a space between f and >>!)
Close the window, and
9. Use the shortcut from (7) again
You should now have a cmd.exe with a working pywikibot setup!
(pywikibot) C:\Users\valhallasw\pywikibot\rewrite\scripts>python touch.py
Gebruiker:Valhallasw
Retrieving 1 pages from wikipedia:nl.
Page [[Gebruiker:Valhallasw]] saved
NOTE: you *must* use 'python' in front of the script name, or python will
not find the pywikibot directory.
Good luck!
Merlijn
Hi,
is there a function in pywikibot to give any wiki's date format? I made an
own regex using format['MonthName'] from date.py, but perhaps there is a
simplier way.
And is there a function to compare two standard format dates (i.e. ~~~~ or
~~~~~) in any wikis? I can easily write one for Hungarian dates, but I would
like to offer my script for other wikis.
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Bináris
Hello,
Whenever I "import wikipedia" (just for example to invoke help(something)
or dir(something) few things happen in the background.
Most notably some Throttles are initialized, and, if you don't have
a user-config.py file, a nice configuration utility is launched.
Is it possible that those things happen when one actually attempts
to invoke the framework and to just inspect it?
An obvious place, to me, is the first invocation of wikipedia.Page.getSite(),
but maybe there are some issues?
//Marcin
Hi!
When I trying to work in subcategories, for example* interwiki.py
-cat:Argentina -subcat* , bot works only in a category:Argentina but not in
subcategories. Some months ago it worked very well, maybe there is a bug
now?
Greetings, Šarūnas
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