[Pywikipedia-l] match and list, but not replace

[Nicolas Dumazet]

Hello,

2010/4/1 Chris Watkins <chriswaterguy at appropedia.org>:
> I want to generate a list of matches for a search, but not do anything to
> the page.
>
> E.g. I want to list all pages that contain "redirect[[:Category", but I
> don't want to modify the pages.

List pages? That's a job for pagegenerators.py

    python pagegenerators.py -search[.....]

But honestly Chris, as I wrote before, you should try to learn Python.
It's not this hard :)
The time required to write a 3 lines long code snippet yielding all
pages matching a Mediawiki search (2 minutes) should be about 500
times shorter than the average latency of this mailing list:

    from pagegenerators import SearchPageGenerator
    for page in SearchPageGenerator("my query"):
      print page

I haven't been coding with pywikipedia for months, this code is
provided without any guarantee. But you get the simplicity of the
operation I guess :)

Best regards,
Nicolas.

>
> I guess that it's possible to modify redirect.py (I don't speak python, but
> it shouldn't be hard) and run it with -log. But maybe there's a simpler way?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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