dia-l] debugging a replace.py command
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 18:06, Bináris wrote:
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> > 2012/3/19 Chris Watkins
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> >> I've been playing around with this idea, but I can't see why (.*$) would
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On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 18:06, Bináris wrote:
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> 2012/3/19 Chris Watkins
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>> I've been playing around with this idea, but I can't see why (.*$) would
>> match an empty part.
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> It does, because '*' means zero or more occurances.
> >>> import re
> >>> re.search('ku.*$', 'ku')
> <_sre.
2012/3/19 Chris Watkins
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> I've been playing around with this idea, but I can't see why (.*$) would
> match an empty part.
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It does, because '*' means zero or more occurances.
>>> import re
>>> re.search('ku.*$', 'ku')
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x02ED6510>
That means it matched.
Anywa
Bináris,
>> IndexError: no such group
>> no such group
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> This occurs when you use a condtional group and it does not exist and you
> refer to it.
> In this case (.*$) will match an empty part and in that case \2 refers to
> nothing.
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I've been playing around with this idea, but I can't s
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 05:30, Merlijn van Deen wrote:
> On a more generic note; for debugging such issues, using pdb (the
> python debugger) can be useful. It does require being able to
> understand written python code.
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Merlijn, thanks for the suggestion to use pdb. We have an intern who kn
On 15 March 2012 12:53, Chris Watkins wrote:
> File "/home/cwg23/pwb/pywikibot/textlib.py", line 175, in replaceExcept
> match.group(groupID) + \
> IndexError: no such group
> no such group
> 0 pages were changed.
On a more generic note; for debugging such issues, using pdb (the
python debu
2012/3/15 Chris Watkins
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> IndexError: no such group
> no such group
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This occurs when you use a condtional group and it does not exist and you
refer to it.
In this case (.*$) will match an empty part and in that case \2 refers to
nothing.
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Bináris
I'm having trouble with this script, which I'm running on Appropedia.org...
it's not a huge deal if it doesn't work, but I'd appreciate if anyone has
the patience to help me understand how to debug this, or *why* it doesn't
work.
I've narrowed it down to the \2 in the replace term, as the problem
