On Jan 13, 2008 7:21 PM, rotem@svn.wikimedia.org wrote:

Revision: 4875 Author: rotem Date: 2008-01-13 18:21:45 +0000 (Sun, 13 Jan 2008)

Log Message:

(bug 1869983) Catch ServerError exceptions in Page.put.

Modified Paths:

trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py

Modified: trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py

--- trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py 2008-01-13 18:15:26 UTC (rev 4874) +++ trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py 2008-01-13 18:21:45 UTC (rev 4875) @@ -1270,6 +1270,14 @@ response, data = self.site().postForm(address, predata, sysop) except httplib.BadStatusLine, line: raise PageNotSaved('Bad status line: %s' % line.line)

•            except ServerError:
  

•                output(u''.join(traceback.format_exception(*sys.exc_info())))
  

•                output(u'Got a server error when putting; will retry in %i minutes.' % retry_delay)
  

•                time.sleep(60 * retry_delay)
  

•                retry_delay *= 2
  

•                if retry_delay > 30:
  

•                    retry_delay = 30
  

•                continue
         if data != u'':
             # Saving unsuccessful. Possible reasons:
             # server lag, edit conflict or invalid edit token.
  
  
  
  

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I did some more investigation on this and I'm not sure whether this is a good idea. I basically had the same code in CommonsDelinker:

while True: try: [...] page.put(new_text.get(), m_summary.get()) return 'ok' except wikipedia.ServerError, e: output(u'Warning! ServerError: %s' % str(e)) [...] output(u'Retrying...')

Which resulted in the following:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martina_Navr%C3%A1tilov%C3%A1&... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Reference_desk_archive/M... http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedysta:Histmag/brudnopis5&...

My logs give the following:

51800 [2007-11-21 11:19:59] Warning! ServerError: (32, 'Broken pipe') 51801 [2007-11-21 11:19:59] Retrying... 51802 Changing page [[wikipedia:fr:Martina Navr<C3><A1>tilov<C3><A1>]] 51805 [2007-11-21 11:28:35] Warning! ServerError: (32, 'Broken pipe') 51806 [2007-11-21 11:28:35] Retrying... 51807 Changing page [[wikipedia:fr:Martina Navr<C3><A1>tilov<C3><A1>]]

And that continues for some time... I'm not sure how to fix this. Anybody advise?

Bryan