[Pywikipedia-l] How do I insert an "!" (exclamation mark)?

[Daniel Herding]

Dear Chris,

Am Dienstag 25 November 2008 03:09:20 schrieb Chris Watkins:
> If I run:
> python replace.py -cat:"The Transition Handbook" "-- Please do not remove "
> "!-- Please do not remove "
>
> ...t doesn't change anything.

You can use HTML entities:
python replace.py -cat:"The Transition Handbook" "-- Please do not 
remove " "!-- Please do not remove "

The downside of this is that the HTML entity will be in the wiki source code. 
If you do, however, enable the cosmetic changes, the entity will 
automatically be converted to an exclamation mark before saving to the wiki. 
Just add this line to your user-config.py:

cosmetic_changes = True


Cheers

Daniel