Thanks to all for the comments and effort. Over the weekend I uninstalled python 2.7.1 and tried everything again with 2.6.5 and 2.5.4. I updated my tracking page (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Spangineer/Sandbox3) with results, but the short answer is that while 2.6.5 did not give me the unicode error, it still did not actually perform an archive. Version 2.5.4 did not even allow me to login, and instead gave me a different error, which I copy/pasted into the bottom of the above-linked page.
Merlijn: I have some programming experience, but not in this language, so my efforts to debug will be stabs in the dark... but it's looking more and more necessary.
John: what settings did you use? Would you mind telling me, step-by-step, what you did?
Which timestamps? Each timestamp format has to be coded into the
script, which can be done fairly easily once we have the format..
-- Lewis Cawte
On 08/01/11 22:51, John wrote:
I just took a look, you can see my trial edits on the
page
I got it to work for the most part, apparently its having issues
with some timestamps b it does appear to work fine.
On 7 January 2011 21:08, Bináris <wikiposta@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Unicode bug in python 2.6+ (was: Default Python will
change to 2.7)
> Default Python will change to 2.7
This probably does not affect you, although it might be better
to run
under python 2.5. This bug is triggered only with page titles
with
multiple accents, which means it doesn't happen for many
languages --
mainly languages such as hindi and vietnamese are affected.
I cannot see anything clear on why archivebot is not working
for you
-- although I have no experience running it myself, your
configuration
files and method to start archivebot seem OK to me. If you
have any
programming experience, try adding some debugging output to
archivebot.py (eg. 'print pg' at line 662). If you do not,
you'll have
to wait for someone who can do this for you - unfortunately, I
cannot,
at the moment.