2009/11/23 Chris Watkins <chriswaterguy@appropedia.org>

I'm using replace.py to create wikilinks. Usually I want to select only the first occurrence of the search string, and my command works fine for this.

I don't understand that, how do you select only the first one? For me, replace.py either changes each instance within a page, or nothing.

As far as I understand, at this opont replace.py gives the command to wikipedia.py:
new_text = wikipedia.replaceExcept(new_text, old, new, exceptions,
allowoverlap=self.allowoverlap)
So the solution should be in wikipedia.py.