Yeah, River patched the toolserver version to fix the known unicode problem
Delta On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 10:21 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > there is py 2.7.1 running on toolserver and I found this version does not > trigger unicode bug #3081100 whereas py 2.7.1 downloaded from > www.python.org has still this bug. Are there any changes or fixes made on > ts version? > > Greetings > xqt > > > ----- Original Nachricht ---- > Von: Merlijn van Deen <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Datum: 22.11.2010 11:59 > Betreff: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] [Toolserver-l] Default Python will change to > 2.7 > > > Hello all, > > > > This is especially relevant for all interwiki bots on the toolserver. > > Do *not* use python 2.7 for those bots. > > > > There is a bug [1] in the unicode normalization that causes page > > titles to become mangled [2]. This, in turn, results in botwars [3]. > > As such, interwiki bots on wikipedia should use a python version that > > does not have this bug, which means using a version before 2.6.5. > > > > Although you will get a warning message when using a python version > > that exhibits this bug, the bot will still work. As such, you may very > > well cause bot wars if you start using py2.7. > > > > Best regards, > > Merlijn van Deen > > > > > > [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue10254 > > [2] > > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=3081100&group_id > > =93107 > > [3] > > > http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GNU-Lizenz_f%C3%BCr_freie_Dokument > > ation&action=history > > > > On 22 November 2010 11:22, River Tarnell <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > During the general maintenance on Dec 6th, we will change the default > > Python > > > version (/usr/bin/python) on the Solaris user servers from 2.6 to 2.7. > > You may > > > wish to test your tools with /usr/bin/python2.7 before then. > > > > > > - river. > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) > > > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAkzqREgACgkQIXd7fCuc5vIhFQCgpX20z0B9xHikuwl+yiEUDzFH > > > WjYAn1wqm21wZjP1uQhsEO7RkxlTyE/N > > > =CqUE > > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > > > Posting guidelines for this list: > > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l >
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