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@lists.wikimedia.org Reporter: jayvdb@gmail.com Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: ---

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== ....