I'm no expert when it comes to template manipulation using bots, but for the little template stuff I do I have found mwparserfromhell ( https://github.com/earwig/mwparserfromhell) to be a nice library that makes the job fairly easy, so you might want to look into that for your template needs.
Cheers, Morten On 3 September 2013 15:39, Strainu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to convert a fairly large set of scripts from compat to > core and I found a significant loss of functionality in getting image > and template info. While writing this, I've noticed that the latest > version of core also has some of these prblems. I will elaborate on > this loss of functionality below, but I would like to know if this > simplification is intended or if this is part of some work in > progress. > > For the image parsing, the function linkedPages(withImageLinks = True) > used to provide images that were not included through templates, while > imageLinks would provide all the images. In core, the linkedPages > function no longer provides this capability, and I haven't found any > replacement (I ported the old function in my code) > > For template parsing, templatesWithParams from class Page used to > provide a pair containing the template name and a list of parameters, > with the full "key=value" string. Nowadays, we're getting a dictionary > instead of that list. Normally there is nothing wrong with that, > except that in Python 2 the dictionary is unordered, which means that: > * the order of the parameters is forever lost > * the original text cannot be reconstructed (because of the above and > the missing whitespace information) - this means there is no easy way > to identify and/or replace a particular instance of the template in a > page with many identical templates. It used to be you could do it with > simple find/replace operations, now it takes some more work. > > I personally would like to have the old behavior back, it would save > me and probably others a lot of work. > > Thanks, > Strainu > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l >
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