I am just running <br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">replace.py -catr:%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F . @ -lang:ru -excepttext:&quot;[[hu:&quot; -save:magyarok.txt -always</span> to collect Hungary-related articles from Russian Wikipedia.<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
This stuff has already been running for 10 hours mostly because of pywikibot.output. When the overwhelming majority of characters appears as yellow (substituted), this function slows down the program extremely. I see it writing text on my screen character by character.<br>
<br>This gives me the idea to introduce a new switch:<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> -silent.</span><br>From line 474 on<br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">          # Show the title of the page we&#39;re working on.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">          # Highlight the title in purple.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">          pywikibot.output(u&quot;\n\n&gt;&gt;&gt; \03{lightpurple}%s\03{default} &lt;&lt;&lt;&quot;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">                           % page.title())</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">          pywikibot.showDiff(original_text, new_text)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
should not be executed with this switch on. This is recommended only for such cases as mentioned above.<br><br>Because this can be dangereous, there could be a restriction that allows this switch to work only together with <span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">-always.</span><br>
OR, an even more restrictive rule: it can work only with<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> -save/savenew</span> (one could argue that any work on live wiki should appear on the screen).<br><br clear="all">
Which one is better?<br>-- <br>Bináris<br>