I reverted that change in revision r5741 : the "regex" name is very unclear for pagegenerators.py, while "titleregex" is exactly what we're doing : matching a regex against titles.

I also believe that -regex in replace.py was used much more than -regex in pagegenerators.py; I'm trying here to reduce the inconvenience induced by that necessary change

2008/7/19 leogregianin@svn.wikimedia.org:

Revision: 5740 Author: leogregianin Date: 2008-07-19 04:06:55 +0000 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008)

Log Message:

fixed bug 188064 - Collision of commandline arguments

Modified Paths:

trunk/pywikipedia/replace.py

Modified: trunk/pywikipedia/replace.py

--- trunk/pywikipedia/replace.py 2008-07-19 04:03:18 UTC (rev 5739) +++ trunk/pywikipedia/replace.py 2008-07-19 04:06:55 UTC (rev 5740) @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@

Furthermore, the following command line parameters are supported:

--regex Make replacements using regular expressions. If this argument +-useregex Make replacements using regular expressions. If this argument isn't given, the bot will make simple text replacements.

-nocase Use case insensitive regular expressions. @@ -29,16 +29,16 @@

-addcat:cat_name Adds "cat_name" category to every altered page.

--excepttitle:XYZ Skip pages with titles that contain XYZ. If the -regex +-excepttitle:XYZ Skip pages with titles that contain XYZ. If the -useregex argument is given, XYZ will be regarded as a regular expression.

--excepttext:XYZ Skip pages which contain the text XYZ. If the -regex +-excepttext:XYZ Skip pages which contain the text XYZ. If the -useregex argument is given, XYZ will be regarded as a regular expression.

-exceptinside:XYZ Skip occurences of the to-be-replaced text which lie

•              within XYZ. If the -regex argument is given, XYZ will be
  

•              within XYZ. If the -useregex argument is given, XYZ will be
              regarded as a regular expression.
  
  

-exceptinsidetag:XYZ Skip occurences of the to-be-replaced text which lie @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ -fix:XYZ Perform one of the predefined replacements tasks, which are given in the dictionary 'fixes' defined inside the file fixes.py.

•              The -regex and -nocase argument and given replacements will
  

•              The -useregex and -nocase argument and given replacements will
              be ignored if you use -fix.
              Currently available predefined fixes are:
  

&fixes-help; @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Be careful, this might lead to an infinite loop.

other: First argument is the old text, second argument is the new

•              text. If the -regex argument is given, the first argument
  

•              text. If the -useregex argument is given, the first argument
              will be regarded as a regular expression, and the second
              argument might contain expressions like \\1 or \g<name>.
  
  

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ new syntax, e.g. {{Stub}}, download an XML dump file (pages-articles) from http://download.wikimedia.org, then use this command:

• python replace.py -xml -regex "{{msg:(.*?)}}" "{{\1}}"

• python replace.py -xml -useregex "{{msg:(.*?)}}" "{{\1}}"

If you have a dump called foobar.xml and want to fix typos in articles, e.g. Errror -> Error, use this: @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@

# Read commandline parameters.
for arg in wikipedia.handleArgs():

•    if arg == '-regex':
  

•    if arg == '-useregex':
        regex = True
    elif arg.startswith('-xmlstart'):
        if len(arg) == 9:
  
  
  
  

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