Revision: 4337 Author: wikipedian Date: 2007-09-21 01:21:51 +0000 (Fri, 21 Sep 2007) Log Message: ----------- hack to enable windows users of replace.py to use linebreaks Modified Paths: -------------- trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py Modified: trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py =================================================================== --- trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py 2007-09-20 14:51:04 UTC (rev 4336) +++ trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py 2007-09-21 01:21:51 UTC (rev 4337) @@ -2656,6 +2656,15 @@ else: # We found a valid match. Replace it. + # This is a hack for Windows users. As they're unable to enter real + # linebreaks in the command prompt, this line allows them to enter + # backslash-n instead. + # This means that it is impossible replace a string with a real + # backslash-n sequence (it will always become a linebreak), but + # it is unprobable that someone will want to do that. + if sys.platform=='win32': + new = new.replace('\\n', '\n') + # We cannot just insert the new string, as it may contain regex # group references such as \2 or \g<name>. # On the other hand, this approach does not work because it can't