https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69060
Bug ID: 69060
Summary: makecat does not work with command line arguments
Product: Pywikibot
Version: core (2.0)
Hardware: PC
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: major
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General
Assignee: Pywikipedia-bugs(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: jayvdb(a)gmail.com
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When the category name is put on the command line in Linux
$ python pwb.py scripts/makecat.py -family:wikipedia -lang:en Roads_in_Kent
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "pwb.py", line 157, in <module>
run_python_file(fn, argv, argvu)
File "pwb.py", line 67, in run_python_file
exec(compile(source, filename, "exec"), main_mod.__dict__)
File "scripts/makecat.py", line 217, in <module>
workingcatname = unicode(workingcatname, 'utf-8')
TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported
<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>
CRITICAL: Waiting for 1 network thread(s) to finish. Press ctrl-c to abort
It works correctly if the category name is entered via pywikibot.input()
$ python pwb.py scripts/makecat.py -family:wikipedia -lang:en
Which page to start with? Roads_in_Kent
WARNING: unicode.setAction is DEPRECATED, use comment parameter for page saving
method instead.
Retrieving 32 pages from wikipedia:en.
Retrieving 50 pages from wikipedia:en.
==Roy Phippen==
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