JJMC89 created this task.
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TASK DESCRIPTION
**Steps to replicate the issue** (include links if applicable):
name=python3 pwb.py shell
>>> site = pywikibot.Site()
>>> page = pywikibot.Page(site, 'Wikipedia:Categories for
discussion/Log/2025 November 8#Japanese superhero films by decade')
>>> page.text
**What happens?**:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/jjmc89/wrk/pwb/pywikibot/page/_basepage.py", line 581, in text
return self.get(get_redirect=True)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/jjmc89/wrk/pwb/pywikibot/page/_basepage.py", line 396, in get
raise SectionError(f'{page_section!r} is not a valid section '
pywikibot.exceptions.SectionError: 'Japanese superhero films by decade' is
not a valid section of Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 8
**What should have happened instead?**:
An exception is not raised due to a LRM being present in the wikitext but not
in `page.section()`.
`[[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 8#Japanese superhero
films by decade]]` is a working link to the section of the page with `====
Japanese superhero films\u200e by decade ====`.
**Software version** (on `Special:Version` page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis
like Wikipedia):
Pywikibot: [ssh] pywikibot-core (af27117
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rPWBCaf271172a09b39f9f68d707520dad454cefd74db>,
g20065, 2025/11/28, 21:37:46, master)
Release version: 11.0.0.dev2
**Other information** (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):
Report based on the content of the page as of
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_November_8&oldid=1324681231,
which was subsequently edited to remove the LRM.
TASK DETAIL
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411307
WORKBOARD
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/87/
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