Bugs item #1769869, was opened at 2007-08-08 11:11 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by wikipedian You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=176986… 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: other Group: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Filnik (filnik) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: replace.py has problem with "\n" Initial Comment: I have tried with: replace.py -regex -cat:Dipinti_di_Kandinsky "\[\[[Cc]ategoria:[Dd]ipinti[ _]di[ _][Kk]andinsky\]\]" "[[Categoria:Dipinti di Kandinsky]]\n[[Categoria:Dipinti astratti]]" -summary:"Bot: Aggiungo categoria" but the "\n" isn't converted into a new line... Bryan and valhallasw has said that it should work but it doesn't... can anyone check if the \n is converted properly? Thanx, Filnik ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 2007-09-20 22:25 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=880694 Originator: NO This should be fixed. You can now use \n inside the replacement when you're using Windows. Note that this isn't a fix for a PyWikipediaBot bug, but a workaround for a Windows problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Falk Steinhauer (falk_steinhauer) Date: 2007-08-08 23:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1810075 Originator: NO As I know, the windows console isn't able to take special characters like newline or backslash as arguments. So every time I need one of those characters, I enter them manually in function doReplacements() of module replace.py. For instance: def doReplacements(self, original_text): """ Returns the text which is generated by applying all replacements to the given text. """ new_text = original_text # dirty trick for special characters: self.replacements = [] self.replacements.append( ('RegExp','Replacement') ) for old, new in self.replacements: new_text = wikipedia.replaceExcept(new_text, old, new, ['nowiki', 'comment', 'math', 'pre'], allowoverlap = self.allowoverlap) return new_text Because this works, it cannot be a bug in replace.py. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Aurimas Fischer (ebola_rulez) Date: 2007-08-08 13:10 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=959303 Originator: NO It worked before, I used this several months ago (from my fixes.py): (u'\{\{Taxobox_pradžia ?\| ?(.*?)}}(\r\n|\n)(\{\{Taxobox_begin_placement)', ur'{{Taxobox_pradžia | \1}}\n{{Taxobox_paveiksliukas | image = | caption = }}\2\3') And now it doesn't ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Herding (wikipedian) Date: 2007-08-08 12:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=880694 Originator: NO In Linux, it is possible to just press enter to create a newline, as long as the string is inside quoataion marks. ----------------------- daniel@localhost:~/projekte/pywikipedia> python replace.py mp "m Checked for running processes. 1 processes currently running, including the current process. Getting 1 pages from wikipedia:de... - Example + Exam + ple Do you want to accept these changes? ([y]es, [N]o, [a]ll) ----------------------- I don't know if that's possible in Windows. At least in the replacement part, you cannot use the \n even in Linux. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Filnik (filnik) Date: 2007-08-08 11:24 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1834469 Originator: YES It doesn't work :'( see: http://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Composizione_%28Kandinsky_1916%29… ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Aurimas Fischer (ebola_rulez) Date: 2007-08-08 11:19 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=959303 Originator: NO Try using \r\n for newline ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=176986…