On Aug 20, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Lewis Cawte lewiscawte@googlemail.com wrote:
On 20/08/2013 19:19, William H. Magill wrote:
On Aug 20, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Lewis Cawte lewiscawte@googlemail.com wrote:
One last point -- since you have these assorted "configure" scripts which MUST be run before one can begin using the product -- why not have an "install" script, which automatically runs them as needed. ... of course to do that, you will first need to fix "generate_family_file.py".
I wouldn't say that's really necessary, all you have to do is run generate_family_file.py and generate_user_files.py ... they are both pretty simple and quick. It's actually considerably easier than when I started using Pywikipedia, when you had to craft the family file by hand!
Yes. if you do them in that order.... they work.
However, the Installation instructions tell you to run them in the reverse order; consequently they do not work -- because "generate_family_file.py" will fail if a "user-config.py" file exists. (Unless that has been changed in the past month.)
This is not true at all unless you've just found a very very weird bug. Generate_family_file.py works even if a user-config.py exists, and it has been that way since the script was created. I've been using it since it was first released, in all different versions.
There is no version information in the distribution i.e. nothing in the README, or CONTENTS files. It was downloaded from the SVN in late June.
using the instructions found at: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot
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python generate_family_file.py
Usage: generate_family_file.py <url> <short name> Example: generate_family_file.py http://www.mywiki.bogus/wiki/Main_Page mywiki This will create the file families/mywiki_family.py Please insert URL to wiki: http//www.lotro-wiki.com Please insert a short name (eg: freeciv): mywikitest Generating family file from http//www.lotro-wiki.com Traceback (most recent call last): File "generate_family_file.py", line 335, in <module> FamilyFileGenerator(*sys.argv[1:]).run() File "generate_family_file.py", line 69, in run w = Wiki(self.base_url) File "generate_family_file.py", line 266, in __init__ data = urlopen(fromurl).read() File "generate_family_file.py", line 29, in urlopen return urllib2.urlopen(req) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 386, in open protocol = req.get_type() File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 248, in get_type raise ValueError, "unknown url type: %s" % self.__original ValueError: unknown url type: http//www.lotro-wiki.com ======<cut here>======
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