Error: `pelican-import --wpfile` interprets "/" on post titles as a filename/basename

Author: A-InforCreated Feb 3, 2026Updated Sep 13, 2026

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OS version and name: Debian 12
Python version: 3.11.2
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Issue

$ pelican-import --wpfile Posts.wordpress.xml 
content/️-Alemanha-Socialista-∋-️-Stasi-(Polícia-Secreta).rst
content/O-Perigo-da-Assexualidade.rst
content/Algumas-questões-que-afligem-os∕as-assexuais.rst
content/Sectarismo→hostilidade-∧-ideologias.rst
content/'Você-=-privilegiado!'.rst
content/Diversidade-sexual-≠-militância-pró-sexo.rst
content/Amor-e-sexo--diferenças-qualitativas.rst
content/Assexualidade--expectativas-alheias.rst
content/-Esquecer-&-Perdoar--≠--Vigiar-&-Punir-.rst
content/Assexualidade-∧-liberdade-de-não-buscar-parceiro(a)s.rst
content/Assexualidade--FAQ.rst
content/O--poder-corrompe-∕-Lutzenberger.rst
content/⛪️-Violência-∈-Mal-→¬Mal-∌-Violência-∕-Tolstói.rst
content/-Bulgária--o-país-mais-corrupto-da--União-Europeia.rst
content/Por-fora,-bela-viola-∧-por-dentro,-pão-bolorento.rst
content/-Editora-Monstro-dos-Mares--conheça!.rst
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/analista/virtualenvs/pelican/bin/pelican-import", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
             ^^^^^^
  File "/home/analista/virtualenvs/pelican/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pelican/tools/pelican_import.py", line 1259, in main
    fields2pelican(
  File "/home/analista/virtualenvs/pelican/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pelican/tools/pelican_import.py", line 973, in fields2pelican
    assert slug is None or filename == os.path.basename(
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: filename is not a basename: Marxistas profissionais /  Platão

The post with title "Marxistas profissionais / Platão" can't be imported due to the "/" on the title. The other posts successfully imported before this one had the common slash "/" manually replaced by me for a division slash "∕", that does the trick of fooling Pelican. But I have far too many posts with slashes on the title to keep doing that!

Source: getpelican/pelican

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