iliana/python-simplemediawiki

Extremely low-level wrapper to the MediaWiki API

simplemediawiki is an extremely low-level wrapper to the MediaWiki API. It requires Python 2.6 or later or Python 3.3 or later.

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python-simplemediawiki's Issues

On defining separate methods for Pythons 2 and 3

Here, you added if sys.version[blah] in the body of a method.

When you import it, the sys.version is already static, every line of code will be running in the same interpreter which you already know is 2.7.4 or 3.3.1 or something. Putting an if statement like that in the body of the method is saying "HEY WHAT VERSION IS THIS" every time you call the method.

We do not know the version beforehand. But we can define a method for Python 2 and another one for Python 3. Another if statement can check the Python version once, and then set the corresponding method for the class. This would decrease the method call time and make debugging clearer.

add a link to the documentation to the README

Improve discoverability of documentation by adding a link to the README. Addressed by #10 .

Connecting to mediawiki with basic-auth fails

  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/simplemediawiki.py", line 251, in login
    return do_login(self, user, passwd)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/simplemediawiki.py", line 242, in do_login
    result = self.call(data)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/simplemediawiki.py", line 184, in call
    return json.loads(self._fetch_http(self._api_url, params))
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/simplemediawiki.py", line 153, in _fetch_http
    base64string = base64.encodestring(auth_str).replace('\n', '')
TypeError: expected bytes, bytearray or buffer compatible object

the problem is that the arguments passed to replace must be of the same type. So line 153 should read:

            base64string = base64.encodestring(auth_str).replace(b'\n', b'')

even after that change, the request fails:

  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/simplemediawiki.py", line 251, in login
    return do_login(self, user, passwd)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/simplemediawiki.py", line 242, in do_login
    result = self.call(data)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/simplemediawiki.py", line 184, in call
    return json.loads(self._fetch_http(self._api_url, params))
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/simplemediawiki.py", line 156, in _fetch_http
    response = self._opener.open(request)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/urllib/request.py", line 475, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/urllib/request.py", line 587, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/urllib/request.py", line 513, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/urllib/request.py", line 447, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/urllib/request.py", line 595, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 401: Authorization Required

use requests instead of urllib

Using requests instead of urllib to handle HTTP requests would improve security as well as code readability. urllib does not verify SSL certificates.

add user-agent and login to available code samples

Improve the available code samples by demonstrating use of the user-agent function and including a sample that demonstrates use of login/cookies to make edits to a wiki.

Describe maintenance status of library in README

Update the README to describe the maintenance status.

Add automatic query continuations

It would be very useful if simplemediawiki handled query continuations (via continue or query-continue automatically.

handle tokens for edits

It would be very useful if simplemediawiki automatically handled the process of acquiring various forms of edit tokens.

unexpected test failure

I added a line to README and the tests for Python 2.6 and 3.3 failed (but not the one for 2.7): https://travis-ci.org/ianweller/python-simplemediawiki/builds/26683173. This doesn't seem right. Is something wrong with the tests? Possibly the test wiki?

import datetime

In MediaWiki.parse_date, datetime module is used but it's not imported.

Implement Python 3 compatibility

There is already some work done here: https://github.com/ehahn/python-simplemediawiki

I need to double check that @ehahn's branch works well on both Python 2 and 3. (Hmm, maybe I should write a standard test suite for this thing.)

apt-get install pythonsimplemediawiki should auto-install python-iso8601

I installed python-simplemediawiki with apt-get install on Ubuntu 14.04, which didn't raise any errors.

When I opened python and typed "import simplemediawiki" I got the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/simplemediawiki.py", line 36, in <module>
    import iso8601
ImportError: No module named iso8601

Running "sudo apt-get install python-iso8601" solved the problem, but python-simplemediawiki should auto-install needed dependencies.