From: Nathan TeBlunthuis <nathante@uw.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 23:07:27 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: add a minor comment on the source of the redirect regex
X-Git-Url: https://code.communitydata.science/mediawiki_dump_tools.git/commitdiff_plain/32283aa4da2eb256af9bec2e2d42481a1ca19d0b

add a minor comment on the source of the redirect regex
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diff --git a/wikiq b/wikiq
index 6d2e7fa..a9b8f2e 100755
--- a/wikiq
+++ b/wikiq
@@ -389,6 +389,8 @@ class WikiqParser():
                 redirect_aliases = chain(* map(lambda obj: obj.get("aliases"), redirect_config))
                 redirect_aliases = list(map(lambda s: s.lstrip('#'), redirect_aliases))
                 redirect_aliases.append('REDIRECT') # just in case
+
+                # this regular expression is copied from pywikibot
                 pattern = '(?:' + '|'.join(redirect_aliases) + ')'
                 redirect_regex =  re.compile(r'\s*#{pattern}\s*:?\s*\[\[(.+?)(?:\|.*?)?\]\]'
                                              .format(pattern=pattern), re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL)