[Pywikipedia-l] SVN: [5388] trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py

[wikipedian at svn.wikimedia.org]

Revision: 5388
Author:   wikipedian
Date:     2008-05-16 20:12:04 +0000 (Fri, 16 May 2008)

Log Message:
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Simplified a loop in replaceExcept(). As a side effect, you can now use replace.py to post text into empty pages by running:
python replace.py -regex ^$ New_Text -start:A

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py

Modified: trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py
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--- trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py	2008-05-16 18:15:36 UTC (rev 5387)
+++ trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py	2008-05-16 20:12:04 UTC (rev 5388)
@@ -3101,7 +3101,7 @@
             dontTouchRegexes.append(exc)
     index = 0
     markerpos = len(text)
-    while index < len(text):
+    while True:
         match = old.search(text, index)
         if not match:
             # nothing left to replace