There is a remaining bug. Try the following e.g. from idle: you are asked to install patch.exe. If you decline this request you are asked a second time. If declined a second time the script raises a fatal error while importing beautifullsoup. Beautifullsoup is a central part if the screen scraping compat framework and we should not prohibit using the framework for a cosmetic patch. Please give us back that part as e.g. externals or a library script. Anyway it is not a good idea to ask for installation (twice) and fall into a fatal error if you answer is NO. There should be alternatives to patching the working copy (e.g. nightly dump etc.) Greetings xqt ----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----- Von: Dr. Trigon Gesendet: 03.07.2013 20:14 An: pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Betreff: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Question about externals and patches -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello to all (again)! Quit some time has elapsed since my first mail. Today I tested successfully 'patch.exe' [1] in win and in linux wine. This is another one than mentioned before, but/and as I can see works quite well even with LF (unix-style) line endings. [1] http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htm Since I will commit these changes now the time has come to test it on other machines also. After that was successful too I will remove BeautifulSoup.py from externals because it will be downloaded and patched automatically. In order to test this on your windows machine you can e.g.: 1.) create a directory, e.g. '[...]/Desktop/patch-test' 2.) download and extract 'patch.exe' from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/gnuwin32/patch/2.5.9-7/patch-2.5.9… to this directory 3.) download and extract 'BeautifulSoup.py' from https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/B/BeautifulSoup/BeautifulSoup-3.2.0… to this directory 4.) download the patch 'patch-BeautifulSoup' from http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/externals/pat… to this directory 5.) open 'cmd', cd to '[...]/Desktop/patch-test' and enter "patch.exe - -p0 -d [...]/Desktop/patch-test/ -i [...]/Desktop/patch-test/patch-BeautifulSoup --binary" 6.) check the output for error messages and compare the resulting 'BeautifulSoup.py' to the one in your pywikipedia/externals directory, they should be exactly the same! IF NOT AND/OR ERRORS OCCURED PLEASE REPORT THIS TO ME! Thanks a lot to everybody helping and Greetings DrTrigon On 25.05.2013 11:40, Dr. Trigon wrote: _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list Pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l