Patches item #2424422, was opened at 2008-12-13 21:34 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by nicdumz You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603140&aid=2424422...
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 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Rick Block (rick_block) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: -content option for replace.py
Initial Comment: I have a number of tools I run at en.wikipedia that download pages, manipulate the pages using tools like awk, and then upload new versions of the pages. I've implemented an option to replace.py (-content) to provide a filename containing the replacement content for a page. The svn.diff file is attached. The same option can be used to create a new page with content from a specified file as well.
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Comment By: NicDumZ — Nicolas Dumazet (nicdumz)
Date: 2009-04-27 18:13
Message: Sorry for taking so long to review this.
I'm not sure that I understand what would be the usage of that script. Could you provide a (commandline) example, and explain maybe a bit more what would be an interesting application of it?
In fact, I dont really understand why one would need to use replace.py, which is a rather complex script, to simple replace all the text in a page with an arbitrary other text: for page in gen: page.put(text)
does the same thing. You have to add 4 or 5 lines to handle command line arguments, of course, but using replace.py looks a bit "overkill" =)
But maybe I'm wrong here, so please include a use case :)
On the patch itself, if you still want me to include it: * This patch mixes tab and spaces, which is a very bad practice in Python. Please fix this * Please make sure that replacement_text has a default None value in the Bot constructor. Please also append it at the _end_ of the constructor signature, and not in the middle of the arguments list, to ensure backwards compatibility. * Please be a bit more verbose in the documentation of the -content option. If you think that -content will be useful to other users, you'll have to explain them _why_ this is useful =) A commandline example, and a real application could help here. * + new_text = new_text.replace(u'\n',u'\r\n') + if ( new_text == original_text ) or ( new_text == original_text + '\r\n'):
What is this ? This doesn't look quite good (two text comparisons instead of one?), it's not documented, and it doesn't look related to the patch topic. (does it?) * While updating your patch, please also update your patch against HEAD
Thanks :)
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