So I haven't found a way to make a list of matches without replacing. I
suspect there's a very simple way, or it would take very simple changes to
replace.py.
I tried editing replace.py myself, to make it do everything except replace
the files. Then I could hack the log files to get the list I want. But I had
no success - I'm not coder, so it was guesswork.
I copied replace.py to a new file intended to do everything except put
files, and called it *replacenoput.py* (i.e. "replace," but no "put")
My first attempt was to remove this section (commented it out first, but
then removed to be sure):
if self.acceptall and new_text != original_text:
try:
page.put(new_text, self.editSummary)
except wikipedia.EditConflict:
wikipedia.output(u'Skipping %s because of edit conflict'
% (page.title(),))
except wikipedia.SpamfilterError, e:
wikipedia.output(
u'Cannot change %s because of blacklist entry %s'
% (page.title(), e.url))
except wikipedia.PageNotSaved, error:
wikipedia.output(u'Error putting page: %s'
% (error.args,))
except wikipedia.LockedPage:
wikipedia.output(u'Skipping %s (locked page)'
% (page.title(),))
Fail - it made the changes all the same.
Then I figured out that wikipedia.py was being used to put the files. So I
copied that to a new file *wikipedianoput.py* and changed every wikipedia
reference in *replacenoput.py* to wikipedianoput.
Then I scanned through wikipedianoput.py looking for what I need to block...
but I couldn't tell.
Can anyone help? Or even better, is there a more elegant way?
Thanks
Chris
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 00:12, Daniel Mietchen <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Chris Watkins
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks Daniel... I'm confused though.
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 20:25, Daniel Mietchen
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Perhaps
> >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipediabot/copyright.py
> >> will do the trick,
> >
> > I can't see how to use it for matching a specific string.
> Nor do I - sorry. What I had in mind was to apply it to a page that
> contains your search string, and to restrict the search for "copyright
> violations" to your site.
> But this may indeed be a dead end.
>
> >> or simply
> >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipediabot/replace.py
> >> in -debug mode?
> >
> > Where can I find information on -debug mode? I see there is -verbose mode
> > which "may be helpful when debugging", but I don't see how that helps.
> I thought that most PWB scripts had it, but apparently replace.py does not.
>
> but if the
> def __init__(self, reader, force, append, summary, minor, autosummary,
> debug):
> line contains "debug" (as in the example above, taken from
>
> http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/pagefromfile.py?view=markup
> ),
> then -debug is an option with which the script can be run such that it
> performs all its
> actions except editing the pages.
>
> I am not very experienced with Python or PWB either, but since nobody
> had replied so far, I wrote out my ideas as they came to mind.
> Sorry for the confusion,
>
> Daniel
>
> > I may be missing something obvious &-)
> Me too.
>
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Daniel
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Chris Watkins
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > 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.
> >> >
> >> > 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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