Merge pull request sopel-irc#2286 from SnoopJeDi/bugfix/excessive-med…

…iawiki-whitespace Add workaround for excessive whitespace in MediaWiki excerpts (fixes sopel-irc#2259)
RhinosF1 · May 29, 2022 · 36b7c2f · 36b7c2f
2 parents 984e1b9 + 05d55d1
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diff --git a/sopel/modules/wikipedia.py b/sopel/modules/wikipedia.py
@@ -184,6 +184,9 @@ def say_snippet(bot, trigger, server, query, show_url=True):
 
     try:
         snippet = mw_snippet(server, query)
+        # Coalesce repeated whitespace to avoid problems with <math> on MediaWiki
+        # see https://github.com/sopel-irc/sopel/issues/2259
+        snippet = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", snippet)
     except KeyError:
         if show_url:
             bot.reply("Error fetching snippet for \"{}\".".format(page_name))