another problem of your patch is that it returns "unknown" for almost all users of pywikibot when they use Windows. It'll make lots of problems for us in future
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On 3/30/14, Tom Morris tfmorris@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Merlijn van Deen valhallasw@arctus.nlwrote:
On 29 March 2014 19:52, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
I looked for your patch but I couldn't find it, what was your technique?
Catching Exception instead of a specific exception or list of exceptions is a bad idea. It can mask all kinds of unexpected errors (e.g. program syntax errors).
Tom