See also T4700

We either could have a -safesubst option for this or a -subst:safe which is -subst with "safe" value. I prefer the last one, this enables to add a recursive subst method-like -subst:recursive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Substitution#Recursive_substitution

(BTW there is a workaround of using replace.py like this: pwb.py replace "<noinclude" "<noinclud{{subst:#if: always | e }}" "\{\{[Oo]ldtemplate" "{{subst:newtemplate" - substituting noinclude or its part as well, but it is not convenient)

Hi,
Will start working on this.
Thanks

Hi @Hercule ,
I can reproduce the issue. However, I've tried to replace "subst" with "safesubst" with the "<includeonly>" tags applied but the result seems not correct.
See attached:

Could you please give me an example of the correct expected result with the "<includeonly>" tags applied?

Thanks

For me, safesubst/subst in template.py works weird.

@Dvorapa , yeah it's weird. None of those options works good.

@Xqt you talked about this option "-subst:safe"" which is "-subst with "safe" I didn't see such a modifier on Wikipedia.
Any documentation would help me.

Thank you

Hi,
I will unassigned myself from this task for now. Will come back to it if i have any correct solution for this issue.
Thanks

Change 591393 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; owner: Urbanecm):
[pywikibot/core@master] template.py: Allow users to use safesubst

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/591393

Change 591393 merged by jenkins-bot:
[pywikibot/core@master] template.py: Allow users to use safesubst

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/591393