[Pywikipedia-l] problem with replace.py

[Maarten Dammers]

Hi guys,

Op 16-1-2011 12:20, Bináris schreef:
> What does it mean "didn’t work at all"? What have you seen on the screen?
> Are you sure those are really empty, and no space in them?
>
> By the way, now I remember, that earlier I had problems, too, when I 
> wanted to substitute a newline (searching works well).
Try using \r\n for finding the newline, so someting like "\|\r\n\|-" 
"|Yes\n|-"

Maarten
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> 2011/1/16 CobraSA <CobraSA at live.com <mailto:CobraSA at live.com>>
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>     Hi
>     Thanks for helping
>     D:\Development\pywikibot>python replace.py -cat:Dumpers -regex
>     "\|\n\|-" "\|Yes\n\|-"
>     didn’t work at all
>     and without the \ before |  it sort of freeze
>     *From:* Bináris <mailto:wikiposta at gmail.com>
>     *Sent:* Sunday, January 16, 2011 11:39 AM
>     *To:* Pywikipedia discussion list
>     <mailto:pywikipedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>     *Subject:* Re: [Pywikipedia-l] problem with replace.py
>     And it is likely that once you have specified -regex, you have to
>     type \| instead of |, because | has a special meaning in regexes.
>
>     2011/1/16 Bináris <wikiposta at gmail.com <mailto:wikiposta at gmail.com>>
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>         First, you must specify -regex in the command if you want "\n"
>         to mean a newline instead of literal \n.
>         Second, "-cat:Dumpers" is not correct, use -cat:"Dumpers" or
>         simply -cat:Dumpers instead, if you want to work with this
>         category. ("" is only necessary if your category name has a
>         space.)
>
>         2011/1/16 CobraSA <CobraSA at live.com <mailto:CobraSA at live.com>>
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>             command: D:\Development\pywikibot>python replace.py
>             "-cat:Dumpers" "|\n|-" "|Yes\n|-"
>             It makes no chnge even the the dumpers page are full of
>             tables with | empty followed by |-
>             any help please?
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