Morten Wang wrote:
Noticed one of my scripts failing because I tried to instantiate a category named "Wikipedia:Globalt perspektiv-samtliga" (it's in Swedish Wikipedia, here's the actual category: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Wikipedia:Globalt_perspektiv-samtliga)
This fails: myCat = pywikibot.Category(mySite, "Wikipedia:Globalt perspektiv-samtliga");
The error is: ValueError: 'Wikipedia:Globalt perspektiv-samtliga' is not in the category namespace!
That should fail; it would equally fail if you tried myCat = pywikibot.Category(mySite, "Garbage") since "Garbage" is not in the Category namespace. In other words, the fact that the category title starts with "Wikipedia:" has nothing to do with it. However, this should work: myCat = pywikibot.Category(mySite, "Kategori:Wikipedia:Globalt perspektiv-samtliga");
Creating it as a page with namespace set to 14 results in:
myPage = pywikibot.Page(mySite, 'Wikipedia:Globalt
perspektiv-samtliga', ns=14);
print myPage.title();
Wikipedia:Globalt perspektiv-samtliga
print myPage.namespace();
4
The title's namespace overrides the given option, which itsn't what I would expect.
That one does seem like a bug. The namespace number ought to match the actual title. I'll investigate further.
Russ