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Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/1495/
Reported by: harriv
Created on: 2012-07-22 17:20:35
Subject: cosmetics_changes.py chokes on big article
Original description:
I tried to create list of 55000+ page category with category.py and cosmetic\_changes enabled. Script seems to hang for a very long time. If cosmetic changes are disable, this doesn't occur.

Here's stack trace when CTRL-C is pressed:

^CTraceback \(most recent call last\):
File "category.py", line 1005, in <module>
main\(\)
File "category.py", line 998, in main
bot.run\(\)
File "category.py", line 536, in run
self.list.put\(listString, comment=self.editSummary\)
File "/home/users/harriv/wikibot/tmp/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 2005, in put
newtext = ccToolkit.change\(newtext\)
File "/home/users/harriv/wikibot/tmp/pywikipedia/cosmetic\_changes.py", line 166, in change
text = self.cleanUpLinks\(text\)
File "/home/users/harriv/wikibot/tmp/pywikipedia/cosmetic\_changes.py", line 517, in cleanUpLinks
'startspace'\]\)
File "/home/users/harriv/wikibot/tmp/pywikipedia/pywikibot/textlib.py", line 135, in replaceExcept
excMatch = dontTouchR.search\(text, index\)
KeyboardInterrupt

Version info:
Pywikipedia \[http\] trunk/pywikipedia \(r10461, 2012/07/22, 16:33:39\)
Python 2.6.6 \(r266:84292, Dec 26 2010, 22:31:48\)
\[GCC 4.4.5\]
config-settings:
use\_api = True
use\_api\_login = True
unicode test: triggers problem \#3081100