https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55246
--- Comment #13 from Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com --- JAn Dudik moved the page, so the problem should be fixed for now. Keeping this open (it's a bug in pywikipedia, after all).
Related:
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> u'\u200b'.strip() u''
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jan 4 2011, 13:57:14) [GCC 4.5.2] on sunos5 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> u'\u200b'.strip() u'\u200b'
\u200b is technically not whitespace, so strip() probably should not delete it.
Of course, pwb should not be stripping page titles in the first place.