[Pywikipedia-l] [ pywikipediabot-Bugs-1816352 ] replace.py regex '(?ms)^(.*)$'

Bugs item #1816352, was opened at 2007-10-19 10:33 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by wikipedian You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=181635… Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: John Vandenberg (zeroj) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: replace.py regex '(?ms)^(.*)$' Initial Comment: In order to use replace.py to "append" text, the regex needs to match the entire page using '(?ms)^(.*)$' '\1 text to add'. I thought that this was working a while ago, and I documented it as an example on [[m:Replace.py]] on September 24. This doesnt appear to be working now, with the code infinitely looping: it continually matches the page and appends the replacement text. The attached patch makes any regex that matches the entire page a special case. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 2007-10-19 12:41 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=880694 Originator: NO Thanks for your report. This bug didn't only occur when the full text is matched. Take for example this regex, which seems to do the same as yours, but is much simpler: python replace.py -regex "$" "foobar" -page:asdf I found a more elegant solution to this bug, it is now in SVN. Instead of while True: there is now a real loop termination condition: while index < len(text): This seems to solve this problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=181635…