Bugs item #3463037, was opened at 2011-12-20 10:40 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by valhallasw You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=3463037...

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Status: Closed

Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: ACarter (a1carter) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Can't create pages with ":" in title, namespaces

Initial Comment: I am creating pages in a "Review:" namespace.

My script just adds "Review:" infront of the page title. (The line of code is this : "newtitle = "Review:"+pagetitle")

When I try to do so, I get this:

File;C:....\wikipedia.py, line 317, in _init_ raise InvalidTitle(u"Invalid title '%s'" % title) pywikibot.exceptions.InvalidTitle: Invalid title ':'

I'm on r9782 (28 Nov)

Thanks

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Comment By: Merlijn S. van Deen (valhallasw)

Date: 2011-12-21 07:48

Message: Thanks for posting your code. This is what happens:

newtitles = pagetitle # = 'Amsterdam' newtitles2 = 'Review:'+newtitles # = 'Review:Amsterdam'

newredirects = [wikipedia.Page(mysite, title) for title in newtitles2 ] # = [wikipedia.Page(mysite, title) for title in 'Review:Amsterdam'] = [wikipedia.Page(mysite, title) for title in ['R', 'e', 'v', 'i', 'e', 'w', ':', 'A', ...]]

which tries to create a Page object Page(mysite, ':'), which is obviously illegal.

I'm not quite sure how your code is /supposed/ to work, but hopefully this helps to understand what happens and how to prevent it.

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Comment By: ACarter (a1carter) Date: 2011-12-21 01:07

Message: Yes, sorry about that.

Same error with the latest release: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:......\create_reviews.py", line 47, in <module> newredirects = [wikipedia.Page(mysite, title) for title in newtitles2 ] File "C:......\wikipedia.py", line 317, in __init__ raise InvalidTitle(u"Invalid title '%s'" % title ) pywikibot.exceptions.InvalidTitle: Invalid title ':'

My script: pagetitle = page.title()

# condition for pages if pagetitle.find(" ") > 0:

# new pges newtitles = pagetitle newtitles2 = 'Review:'+newtitles suggestions = [">>> %s <<<" % x for x in newtitles2] newredirects = [wikipedia.Page(mysite, title) for title in newtitles2 ]

I am working on a Wikia wiki, in english.

Thanks, and sorry about that.

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Comment By: Merlijn S. van Deen (valhallasw) Date: 2011-12-20 13:16

Message: Please update first to check if the bug is fixed in a more recent release.

Secondly, please post complete stack traces, *and* the relevant code in your script

Thirdly, please check what the parameters are you are sending to the Page object. What is the exact page title that causes this problem, what other parameters are sent, on which wiki are you working? which language?

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