Some characters are discarded in a title search.

[Jehan]

I encountered a funny behavior of your API.
My test was using French Wikipedia.

wikipedia.set_lang('fr')

If I query the pages "Bos taurus" and "Bos_taurus", they both work fine and are the same. Until now all good:

p1 = wikipedia.page('Bos_taurus')
p2 = wikipedia.page('Bos taurus')
p1.content == p2.content
True

Then if I query "Bœuf (animal)", it is still good, but "Bœuf_(animal)" raises a PageError telling me that "bœuf animal" does not exist. It's like when processing the underscore, the parentheses were discarded (or something else, I don't know, I haven't checked the code).

In [17]: p = wikipedia.page('Bœuf (animal)')
In [18]: p = wikipedia.page('Bœuf_(animal)')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
PageError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-18-108f8ec12884> in <module>()
----> 1 p = wikipedia.page('Bœuf_(animal)')

/home/jehan/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/wikipedia/wikipedia.py in page(title, pageid, auto_suggest, redirect, preload)
    274         # if there is no suggestion or search results, the page doesn't exist
    275         raise PageError(title)
--> 276     return WikipediaPage(title, redirect=redirect, preload=preload)
    277   elif pageid is not None:
    278     return WikipediaPage(pageid=pageid, preload=preload)

/home/jehan/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/wikipedia/wikipedia.py in __init__(self, title, pageid, redirect, preload, original_title)
    297       raise ValueError("Either a title or a pageid must be specified")
    298 
--> 299     self.__load(redirect=redirect, preload=preload)
    300 
    301     if preload:

/home/jehan/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/wikipedia/wikipedia.py in __load(self, redirect, preload)
    343     if 'missing' in page:
    344       if hasattr(self, 'title'):
--> 345         raise PageError(self.title)
    346       else:
    347         raise PageError(pageid=self.pageid)

PageError: Page id "bœuf animal" does not match any pages. Try another id!

[co-sty]

Thanks for pointing this out.

There is no text processing going on, the change in text ('Bœuf_(animal)' -> "bœuf animal") comes from Wikipedia's suggestion system (enabled by the auto_suggestion=True parameter of wikipedia.page()). However, the suggestions were not used correctly, which is to be fixed (#131).

[dakshvar22]

Use auto_suggestion=False as parameter to wikipedia.page() call.