https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55128

Web browser: --- Bug ID: 55128 Summary: Non-fatal error starting interwiki.py in Windows Product: Pywikibot Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: Unprioritized Component: General Assignee: Pywikipedia-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org Reporter: legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com Classification: Unclassified Mobile Platform: ---

Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/1654/ Reported by: malafaya Created on: 2013-08-19 11:05:10.022000 Subject: Non-fatal error starting interwiki.py in Windows Original description: It seems that some changes were made to version.py because of git. Under Windows at least, now git.exe seems to be required to be in the PATH. But, even with git.exe in the PATH, I always get the following error on startup:

'%an' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

It seems to be related to line 122 of version.py, which doesn't seem to work under Windows:

info = subprocess.Popen("git log --pretty=format:'%ad|%an|%h|%H|%d' --abbrev-commit --date=iso -1 | cat -", shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.read()

Another problem is that everytime I launch a script, a git.exe process runs and gets stuck. After some few instances, the interwiki.py scripts block and I have to start killing git's. And, BTW, I don't always have access to the git repository when running scripts (due to some block rules here)

D:\Work\pywikipedia>version.py '%an' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Pywikipedia wikipedia.py (r-1 (unknown), 976a310, 2013/08/19, 11:40:07, OUTDATED ) Python 2.7.5 (default, May 15 2013, 22:44:16) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] config-settings: use_api = True use_api_login = True unicode test: ok