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Von:    Bud <bloveall@yahoo.com>
An:      "pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org" <pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org>
Datum:  10.09.2016 02:54
Betreff: [pywikibot] Newbie Q: Error running add_text script for first time

> Hi All,
> I'm new to Pywikibot (and Mediawiki as well). I've used the instructions on
> [0] to install pywikibot on my Windows laptop accessing a Linux server. All
> seems to be connected right (I'm successfully through step 9 and can login).
> The next step is to run add_text to change text on some pages. Here I get an
> error:
> C:\Users\Owner\pywikibot>python pwb.py add_text.py -cat:Testing
> -text:"Testing the add_text script using the Pywikibot user."
> -except:"\{\{([Tt]emplate:|)[Dd]ocumentation [Ss]ubpage" -upTraceback (most
> recent call last):  File "pwb.py", line 270, in <module>    if not main(): 
> File "pwb.py", line 264, in main    run_python_file(filename, [filename] +
> args, argvu, file_package)  File "pwb.py", line 109, in run_python_file   
> main_mod.__dict__)  File ".\scripts\add_text.py", line 358, in <module>   
> main()  File ".\scripts\add_text.py", line 338, in main   
> genFactory.handleArg(arg)  File
> "C:\Users\Owner\pywikibot\pywikibot\pagegenerators.py", line 589, in
> handleArg    gen = self.getCategoryGen(arg,
> gen_func=CategorizedPageGenerator)  File
> "C:\Users\Owner\pywikibot\pywikibot\pagegenerators.py", line 420, in
> getCategoryGen    if prefix not in self.site.namespaces[14]:  File
> "C:\Users\Owner\pywikibot\pywikibot\site.py", line 806, in namespaces   
> self._namespaces = _NamespacesDict(self._build_namespaces())  File
> "C:\Users\Owner\pywikibot\pywikibot\site.py", line 2185, in
> _build_namespaces    if item['*'] not in _namespaces[ns]:KeyError: 104<class
> 'KeyError'>CRITICAL: Waiting for 1 network thread(s) to finish. Press ctrl-c
> to abort
>
> I've verified the Category name exists and is spelled correctly. Not sure
> what to try next to figure this out. Any help is appreciated.
> Thanks,Bud Loveall
> P.S. Also, is there a way to search the archives of the mail list? I'm
> guessing this has been answered before.

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