pagevalidator gets noPage exception handling

viafbot.py

@@ -10,17 +10,22 @@
 # global variables
 enwp = getSite('en','wikipedia')
 dewp = getSite('de','wikipedia')
-
-
+wikilinks = open("wikilinksforbot.out")
+wikilinks = wikilinks.readlines()
+viafbotrun = ("viafbotrun.log", 'w+')
 
 
+#helper methods
 def pageValidator(nameOfPage):
-    """returns a string of either a page if it's valid"""
+    """returns a string of either the page or it's redirect (does not check double redirects).  
+    Or returns None if the page does not exist"""
     namepage = Page(enwp, nameOfPage)
     try:
         namepage.get()
     except IsRedirectPage, redirPageName:
         return redirPageName
+    except NoPage, errorlist:
+        return None
     else:
         return nameOfPage
 
@@ -37,3 +42,29 @@ def determineAuthorityControlTemplate(nameOfPage):
             return 'templateNoVIAF'
     return 'noACtemplate'
 
+
+#the main loop
+same = 0
+total = 0
+nopage = 0
+linkvalidity = open('wikilinkvalidity.txt', 'w+')
+linkvalidity.write('total,same, nopage' + '\n')
+for wikilink in wikilinks:
+    wikilink = wikilink.split()
+    origNameOfPage = wikilink[0]
+    afternameOfPage = pageValidator(origNameOfPage)
+    print origNameOfPage, afternameOfPage
+    total = total +1
+    if afternameOfPage == None:
+        nopage= nopage +1
+        viafbotrun.write("No such article as " + origNameOfPage)
+    else:
+        pass
+    if origNameOfPage == afternameOfPage:
+        same = same +1
+    else:
+        pass
+    linkvalidity.write( str(total) + " " + str(same) + str(nopage) + '\n')
+
+#close resources
+wikilinks.close()