Hello all, This is especially relevant for all interwiki bots on the toolserver. Do *not* use python 2.7 for those bots.
There is a bug [1] in the unicode normalization that causes page titles to become mangled [2]. This, in turn, results in botwars [3]. As such, interwiki bots on wikipedia should use a python version that does not have this bug, which means using a version before 2.6.5. Although you will get a warning message when using a python version that exhibits this bug, the bot will still work. As such, you may very well cause bot wars if you start using py2.7. Best regards, Merlijn van Deen [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue10254 [2] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=3081100&group_id=93107 [3] http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GNU-Lizenz_f%C3%BCr_freie_Dokumentation&action=history On 22 November 2010 11:22, River Tarnell <river.tarn...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > During the general maintenance on Dec 6th, we will change the default Python > version (/usr/bin/python) on the Solaris user servers from 2.6 to 2.7. You > may > wish to test your tools with /usr/bin/python2.7 before then. > > - river. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkzqREgACgkQIXd7fCuc5vIhFQCgpX20z0B9xHikuwl+yiEUDzFH > WjYAn1wqm21wZjP1uQhsEO7RkxlTyE/N > =CqUE > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > Posting guidelines for this list: > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
