[Pywikipedia-l] problem with fixes.py

[Francesco Cosoleto]

Hannes Röst ha scritto:
> Hello
> 
> I am writing for the first time and I don't quite know where the
> appropriate place is to write this. I am working on the German

Originally this mailing-list was named "pywikipediabot-users", nowadays 
it looks more as a devel mailing-list.

> wikipedia and I ran into some problems using fixes.py, specifically I
> had this edit: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deutsches_Reich_1933_bis_1945&diff=prev&oldid=61255346
> 
> the problem is here:
> (r'\bdeutsche(r|n|) Reich\b', r'Deutsche\1 Reich'),
> 
> It seems to be the case that \b does not work with the German eszett,
> whereas \< does work in my case. Should this be changed in all cases
> where \b is used? Do you have other suggestions?

I am surprised to see that. I guess that is because German eszett may be 
used in a different context. I am not sure it worth a bug report to 
Python, others software (like grep) don't work using this regexp either.

A possible workaround should be this:

ur'(?<!\xdf)\bdeutsche[rn] Reich\b'

-- 
Francesco Cosoleto

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