For me it seems that you have an HTTP error on uploading and the error message contains a non-ASCII character. This is an old problem, nobody could solve it by this time. Does your uploaded file contain none-ASCII chars?
2013/8/21 AugurNZ <[email protected]> > Hi, I was pointed here from #pywikipediabot on Freenode IRC. I am using > Pywikipediabot (trunk) revision 11781 under Ubuntu 12.04. I'm having no > success using the upload.py script. It keeps failing with the following > error message... > > ---------- > augur@ubuntu:/home/augur/pywikipedia# python upload.py -family:tropical > -keep -filename:Pwbicon.png -noverify Pwbicon.png "The Pywikipediabot > icon" > No handlers could be found for logger "pywiki" > Reading file Pwbicon.png > The suggested description is: > The Pywikipediabot icon > Uploading file to tropical:en via API.... > ERROR: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in > position 654: ordinal not in range(128) > WARNING: Could not open 'http://www.tropicalwikis.com/w/api.php'. Maybe > the server or > your connection is down. Retrying in 1 minutes... > ---------- > > I can perform other actions on www.tropicalwikis.com with my bot, such as > using login.py, replace.py etc. I have also tried using a different > -family: and logging in to www.thetestwiki.org (where I also have a valid > bot account) and tried uploading the image file there, with the same > result. > > I'm not a python expert, in fact I'm barely a python novice. I came across > this information which may be relevant though... > http://wiki.python.org/moin/UnicodeDecodeError > > Thanks. > AugurNZ > > ps. sorry if this is a repeat of a previous message. I wasn't registered > on the list when I first sent this, but I am now. > > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > -- Bináris
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