Scrapers class cannot begin with a number

This is a fundamental consequence of scrapers being defined as Python classes; a python identifier (variable name, function name, class name, etc.) cannot start with a digit.

We can probably do something about this, at least partially, through some kind of "alias" mechanism, but this has not yet been implemented.

Thanks for info.

Cheap workaround is to begin identifier with an underscore and set name. eg

class _1997(BasicScraper):
    name = '1997'
    latestUrl = 'http://www.1977thecomic.com/'
    imageUrl = 'http://www.1977thecomic.com/%s'
    imageSearch = compile(r'<img src="(http://www.1977thecomic.com/comics-1977/.+?)"')
    prevSearch = compile(r'<a href="(.+?)"><span class="prev">')
    help = 'Index format: yyyy/mm/dd/strip-name'

comic.py

49c49
< comicDir = os.path.join(basepath, self.moduleName.replace('/', os.sep))
---
> comicDir = os.path.join(basepath, self.moduleName.replace('/', os.sep).replace('_', ''))

As Ged mentions above, the correct way to do this is to use a valid Python identifier for the class name, and then set the name attribute on the class to override this. Prepending the number with an underscore might not be the best convention because this usually indicates a private name in Python convention, but I'm not sure what would be a better idea.