textlib.categoryFormat() only works for site specified by config or command line
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	jayvdb
	Jul 25 2014, 10:57 AM

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textlib.categoryFormat() only works when the categories are on the same site as config.family/config.mylang

The breakage was introduced with:

Which caused the ar:wikipedia and test:wikidata travis builds to break
https://travis-ci.org/wikimedia/pywikibot-core/jobs/30527485

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "tests/textlib_tests.py", line 130, in test_category_format_Page
  textlib.categoryFormat(data, self.site))

AssertionError: u'[[Category:Cat1]]\n[[Category:Cat2]]\n' != u'[[en:Category:Cat1]]\n[[en:Category:Cat2]]\n'

+ [[en:Category:Cat1]]
? +++

+ [[en:Category:Cat2]]
? +++

Version: core-(2.0)
Severity: critical

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:33 AM

• bzimport set Reference to bz68564.

Change 149455 had a related patch set uploaded by Ricordisamoa:
convert non-string items to Category objects in textlib.categoryFormat()

Change 149455 merged by jenkins-bot:
convert non-string items to Category objects in textlib.categoryFormat()

the patch merged and the tests seems okay on this. I close this bug, feel free to reopen if you think it still happens