[Pywikipedia-l] [ pywikipediabot-Patches-2762697 ] Stability in wikipedia.py

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Patches item #2762697, was opened at 2009-04-14 20:14
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Dr. Trigon (drtrigon)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Stability in wikipedia.py

Initial Comment:
Recently I've had some problems with the stability of 'wikipedia.put(...)' sometimes this method had some issues and that killed my bot.
I was able to track the problem down to 'wikipedia._getEditPage(...)' and following code (in 'wikipedia.py' around line 725):

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        while not textareaFound:
            text = self.site().getUrl(path, sysop = sysop)

            if text.find("<title>Wiki does not exist</title>") != -1:
                raise NoSuchSite(u'Wiki %s does not exist yet' % self.site())
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and I have changed it that way, to hold my bot/script running:

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        while not textareaFound:
            try:
                text = self.site().getUrl(path, sysop = sysop)
            except:
                time.sleep(1)
                continue

            if text.find("<title>Wiki does not exist</title>") != -1:
                raise NoSuchSite(u'Wiki %s does not exist yet' % self.site())
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and I am "pretty" sure that this solved my problem. :)

Probably you are also intressted in this solution?! I would assume that the delay of 1sec is neither critical nor needed.

Greetings
DrTrigon


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>Comment By: NicDumZ — Nicolas Dumazet (nicdumz)
Date: 2009-04-14 20:17

Message:
Hello !

Are you able to elaborate on what error was raised? There is probably a
nicer way to catch the error, at a lower level, instead of bluntly retrying
on error =)

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Comment By: Dr. Trigon (drtrigon)
Date: 2009-04-14 20:15

Message:
Sorry was NOT 'wikipedia.put(...)' was 'wikipedia.get(...)' !

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