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Hi,
During the general maintenance on Dec 6th, we will change the default Python version (/usr/bin/python) on the Solaris user servers from 2.6 to 2.7. You may wish to test your tools with /usr/bin/python2.7 before then.
- river.
Hello all,
This is especially relevant for all interwiki bots on the toolserver. Do *not* use python 2.7 for those bots.
There is a bug [1] in the unicode normalization that causes page titles to become mangled [2]. This, in turn, results in botwars [3]. As such, interwiki bots on wikipedia should use a python version that does not have this bug, which means using a version before 2.6.5.
Although you will get a warning message when using a python version that exhibits this bug, the bot will still work. As such, you may very well cause bot wars if you start using py2.7.
Best regards, Merlijn van Deen
[1] http://bugs.python.org/issue10254 [2] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=3081100&... [3] http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GNU-Lizenz_f%C3%BCr_freie_Dokument...
On 22 November 2010 11:22, River Tarnell river.tarnell@wikimedia.de wrote:
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Hi,
During the general maintenance on Dec 6th, we will change the default Python version (/usr/bin/python) on the Solaris user servers from 2.6 to 2.7. You may wish to test your tools with /usr/bin/python2.7 before then.
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This might actually be a reason to not roll out 2.7 and wait for a fixed version. Is there a statement from the python people on this?
-- daniel
On 22.11.2010 11:59, Merlijn van Deen wrote:
Hello all,
This is especially relevant for all interwiki bots on the toolserver. Do *not* use python 2.7 for those bots.
There is a bug [1] in the unicode normalization that causes page titles to become mangled [2]. This, in turn, results in botwars [3]. As such, interwiki bots on wikipedia should use a python version that does not have this bug, which means using a version before 2.6.5.
Although you will get a warning message when using a python version that exhibits this bug, the bot will still work. As such, you may very well cause bot wars if you start using py2.7.
Best regards, Merlijn van Deen
[1] http://bugs.python.org/issue10254 [2] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=3081100&... [3] http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GNU-Lizenz_f%C3%BCr_freie_Dokument...
On 22 November 2010 11:22, River Tarnell river.tarnell@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hi,
During the general maintenance on Dec 6th, we will change the default Python version (/usr/bin/python) on the Solaris user servers from 2.6 to 2.7. You may wish to test your tools with /usr/bin/python2.7 before then.
- river.
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Daniel Kinzler:
This might actually be a reason to not roll out 2.7 and wait for a fixed version. Is there a statement from the python people on this?
It's quite simple to patch our version of 2.7 to revert the change, since it seems like the introduced bug is worse than the problem it tries to fix.
- river.
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