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When running script with pagegenerators containing character ":", bot fails:


I:\py\rewrite>pwb.py newitem -catr:údržba_Wikipedie
Retrieving 50 pages from wikipedia:cs.
>>> Wikipedie:Požadované články <<<
[[cs:Wikipedie:Požadované články]] already has an item: [[wikidata:Q4664111]].
...



I:\py\rewrite>pwb.py newitem -catr:údržba:Wikidata
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "I:\py\rewrite\pwb.py", line 164, in <module>
    run_python_file(fn, argv, argvu)
  File "I:\py\rewrite\pwb.py", line 69, in run_python_file
    exec(compile(source, filename, "exec"), main_mod.__dict__)
  File "I:\py\rewrite\scripts\newitem.py", line 149, in <module>
    main()
  File "I:\py\rewrite\scripts\newitem.py", line 135, in main
    elif gen.handleArg(arg):
  File "I:\py\rewrite\pywikibot\pagegenerators.py", line 415, in handleArg
    gen = self.getCategoryGen(arg, len('-catr'), recurse=True)
  File "I:\py\rewrite\pywikibot\pagegenerators.py", line 283, in getCategoryGen
    defaultNamespace=14))
  File "I:\py\rewrite\pywikibot\tools.py", line 529, in wrapper
    return obj(*__args, **__kw)
  File "I:\py\rewrite\pywikibot\page.py", line 1951, in __init__
    if self.namespace() != 14:
  File "I:\py\rewrite\pywikibot\page.py", line 158, in namespace
    return self._link.namespace
  File "I:\py\rewrite\pywikibot\page.py", line 4141, in namespace
    self.parse()
  File "I:\py\rewrite\pywikibot\page.py", line 4050, in parse
    newsite = self._site.interwiki(prefix)
  File "I:\py\rewrite\pywikibot\site.py", line 600, in interwiki
    "'{0}' is not an interwiki prefix.".format(prefix))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfa' in position 0:
ordinal not in range(128)
<type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>
CRITICAL: Waiting for 1 network thread(s) to finish. Press ctrl-c to abort

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