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Handling DisambiguationError in the python wikipedia library

Posted by @issueatlas · Outcome: unknown

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Originally posted by issueatlas · Updated

wikipedia.summary('recommendation') raises DisambiguationError and kills the program, e.g.: DisambiguationError: "Recommendation" may refer to: norm (philosophy), Recommender systems, European Union recommendation, W3C recommendation, letter of recommendation. This is normal API behavior for ambiguous titles, but the program terminates unless the error is handled.

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Catch the exception and use its options attribute: the DisambiguationError carries the list of candidate article titles. Pattern from the maintainer:

try: page = wikipedia.page("Recommendation") except wikipedia.exceptions.DisambiguationError as e: print(e.options)

Then pick the intended title and call wikipedia.page() on it. Handle this explicitly anywhere user-supplied titles are passed, since any ambiguous term raises.

Source: https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia/issues/35