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Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/1424/ Reported by: Anonymous user Created on: 2012-03-18 17:47:08 Subject: upload.py error with Wikia.com Original description: P:\pywikipedia>python version.py Pywikipedia \[http\] trunk/pywikipedia \(r10023, 2012/03/17, 18:03:32\) Python 2.7.2 \(default, Jun 12 2011, 14:24:46\) \[MSC v.1500 64 bit \(AMD64\)\] config-settings: use\_api = True use\_api\_login = True unicode test: ok P:\pywikipedia>python upload.py wikih.jpg WARNING: Your account on sxerks:en does not have a bot flag. Its edits will be v isible in the recent changes and it may get blocked. Reading file wikih.jpg The filename on the target wiki will default to: wikih.jpg Enter a better name, or press enter to accept: The suggested description is: Do you want to change this description? \(\[y\]es, \[N\]o\) n Uploading file to sxerks:en via API.... 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 622: ordinal not in range\(128\) WARNING: Could not open 'http://sxerks.wikia.com/api.php'. Maybe the server or your connection is down. Retrying in 1 minutes... Traceback \(most recent call last\): File "upload.py", line 472, in <module> main\(\) File "upload.py", line 468, in main bot.run\(\) File "upload.py", line 440, in run return self.upload\_image\(\) File "upload.py", line 282, in upload\_image data = query.GetData\(params, self.targetSite\) File "P:\pywikipedia\query.py", line 137, in GetData site.cookies\(sysop=sysop\) File "P:\pywikipedia\upload.py", line 46, in post\_multipart cookies=cookies\) File "P:\pywikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 5497, in postData time.sleep\(retry\_idle\_time \* 60\) KeyboardInterrupt
This is not a Pywikipedia error, this is a connection error, try again later. It clearly states: "Could not open 'http://sxerks.wikia.com/api.php'. Maybe the server or your connection is down." The line before it may be an encoding error of the network error message itself, see bug\#3153555 at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3153555&group\_id=93107&atid=603138. I suppose you have a non-English environment on your computer. We have nothing to do with wikia server or your network connection.
Even in that case, we should not display that message. And a network error message that's 622 characters long? Really? The "WARNING: Could not open 'http://sxerks.wikia.com/api.php'. Maybe the server or your connection is down" displays on \*any\* error in the connection, which could still very well be on our part.
The other bug you refer to is unrelated; that one cast a new exception within the exception handler that prints the "WARNING..." string.
I talk to Wikia and another user tested an upload and it work just fine. The difference being they were using python 2.6.5. I then found an older 2.6.5 windows installer and tried myself and it worked. So apparently there is something wrong with the interaction with 2.7.2 and upload.py that is causing this error.
Possibly related to https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=3160376&group\_id=93107
