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Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/1519/
Reported by: drtrigon
Created on: 2012-10-09 15:08:56
Subject: trunk 10450 not py2.6 compatible
Original description:
Hello all\!

As Merlijn suggested at \[1\] I should also report this here too. I would solve it myself but a quick shot does not seam appropriate.

\[1\] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1466

Python code using:
>>> import re
>>> re.sub\(..., flags=...\)

does not work in python 2.6 because the optional parameter \'flags\' was introduced in python 2.7. As Merlijn noted, this should be replaced by
>>> re.compile\(..., flags=...\).sub\(...\)

A fast \'grep \"flags\" \*\' in my pywikipedia directory of revision 10450, yields at least following matches:

imagecopy\_self.py:                match = re.search\(regex, text, flags=re.IGNORECASE\)
imagecopy\_self.py:                contents\[u\'permission\'\] = re.sub\(regex, u\'\', contents\[u\'permission\'\], flags=re.IGNORECASE\)
imagecopy\_self.py:            text = re.sub\(toRemove, u\'\', text, flags=re.IGNORECASE\)
imagecopy\_self.py:            text = re.sub\(regex, u\'\', text, flags=re.IGNORECASE\)
imagecopy\_self.py:            match = re.search\(regex, text, flags=re.IGNORECASE\)
imagecopy\_self.py:                result = re.sub\(regex, replacement, match.group\(0\), flags=re.IGNORECASE\)

...so there are at least 4 problematic cases which should be changed. I am not aware if a similar issues exists with \'re.search\'.

Thanks and greetings