Fix expectedFailure in textlib_tests.TestReplaceExcept.test_replace_tag_file_failure
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	Xqt
	Jun 12 2025, 8:53 AM

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Fix expectedFailure in textlib_tests.TestReplaceExcept.test_replace_tag_file_failure.

This is a known bug and shows the limit of the regex implementation versus a wikitext parser.
The failure is present since implementation.

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Author	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	tests: Fix expected output for unbalanced file links	Mahveotm	pywikibot/core	master	+3 -6

		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open	Goal	None	T129368 Usages of unittest.expectedFailure or unittest.skip should be solved (goal)
		Open	BUG REPORT	None	T396721 Fix expectedFailure in textlib_tests.TestReplaceExcept.test_replace_tag_file_failure

Xqt triaged this task as Medium priority.Jun 12 2025, 8:54 AM

Change #1337001 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mahveotm; author: Mahveotm):

[pywikibot/core@master] tests: Fix expected output for unbalanced file links