Today was a beautiful early spring day here in New York (my apologies to those of you in the "winter is approaching" hemisphere) so I decided to move away from the keyboard and went out for a bike ride. Along the way, I pretty much came to the same conclusion, and now that I'm back, it's nice to see confirmation that I was thinking in the right direction. Thanks!
> On Mar 21, 2023, at 5:20 PM, William Avery <willm.av...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One could use a plain filter() to iterate over all the nodes, and test each, > to see if it is the template that you want to delete. Having detected the > template you want to delete, set a flag, and delete following text nodes, > until the next template node is detected. > > On Tue, 21 Mar 2023, 18:28 Roy Smith, <r...@panix.com > <mailto:r...@panix.com>> wrote: > I've got some code which is essentially: > > > wikicode = mwp.parse(self.page.get()) > > for node in wikicode.filter_templates(recursive=False, > > matches=title): > > wikicode.remove(node) > > self.page.text = str(wikicode) > > self.page.save() > > > which works, but it leaves an extra blank line behind where the template used > to be. This is intended to be run on [[:en:Template talk:Did you > know/Approved]], i.e. one template per line. > > What's the best way to get rid of the blank lines? I'm trying to avoid just > running a regex replacement on the raw text because that's fragile, but maybe > theres really no good alternative here? > _______________________________________________ > pywikibot mailing list -- pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org > <mailto:pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org> > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org/message/SRJVFLJSSFFMAWE6HMNLUH6A2HO23SDX/ > > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org/message/SRJVFLJSSFFMAWE6HMNLUH6A2HO23SDX/> > To unsubscribe send an email to pywikibot-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > <mailto:pywikibot-le...@lists.wikimedia.org> > _______________________________________________ > pywikibot mailing list -- pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org/message/PH6WBAERXKIAQHQNDGWKOH5BUC5TWVZL/ > To unsubscribe send an email to pywikibot-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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