Fair enough. I should have switched to python 3 for my local environment a long while ago anyway, and this gives me one more reason to do so. Thank you both! Huji
On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 6:07 PM Guilherme Gonçalves < guilherme.p.g...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Huji, > > It does look like the difference in Python versions is the problem. The Python > 3 docs <https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html> say: > > Both string and bytes literals may optionally be prefixed with a letter >> 'r' or 'R'; such strings are called *raw strings* and treat backslashes >> as literal characters. As a result, in string literals, '\U' and '\u' >> escapes in raw strings are not treated specially. *Given that Python >> 2.x’s raw unicode literals behave differently than Python 3.x’s the 'ur' >> syntax is not supported.* >> > > So the syntax you tried to use is indeed invalid. I don't really know what > the exact difference is between Python 2 and Python 3 raw Unicode literals, > but since in Python 3 literal strings are always taken as Unicode, you can > probably just use *r'...'* for your regular expression and settle on > Python 3 for both local development and on Toolforge. > > Hope this helps! > > 2018-08-19 21:57 GMT+01:00 Huji Lee <huji.h...@gmail.com>: > >> Excellent question. On my own computer, I am using 2.7.12 but on labs it >> is 3.4.3 >> >> Of note, when I changed my code such that all cases of *ur'...'* now >> read *u'...' *the script worked in both environments. So it has to do >> with how escaping works in python, I guess. But I am not sure. >> >> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 4:48 PM Alex Monk <kren...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> What are the versions of Python involved? >>> >>> On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 at 21:34, Huji Lee <huji.h...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> When I run this script[1] on my own machine it runs without any >>>> problem. When I run it on Labs, I get an invalid syntax error, pasted >>>> below. Can you please help me figure out why? >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> (venv)tools.huji@tools-bastion-03:~$ python core/pwb.py webcite >>>> -page:"SOME PAGE" >>>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>>> File "core/pwb.py", line 253, in <module> >>>> if not main(): >>>> File "core/pwb.py", line 246, in main >>>> run_python_file(filename, [filename] + args, argvu, file_package) >>>> File "core/pwb.py", line 114, in run_python_file >>>> exec(compile(source, filename, "exec", dont_inherit=True), >>>> File "core/scripts/userscripts/webcite.py", line 125 >>>> faCitationPattern = ur'\{\{\s*یادکرد(?:\{\{.*?\}\}|.)*?\}\}' >>>> >>>> [1] >>>> https://github.com/PersianWikipedia/fawikibot/blob/master/webcite.py >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list >>>> Cloud@lists.wikimedia.org (formerly lab...@lists.wikimedia.org) >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list >>> Cloud@lists.wikimedia.org (formerly lab...@lists.wikimedia.org) >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list >> Cloud@lists.wikimedia.org (formerly lab...@lists.wikimedia.org) >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud >> > > > > -- > Guilherme P. Gonçalves > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list > Cloud@lists.wikimedia.org (formerly lab...@lists.wikimedia.org) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
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