The sections attribute is an empty list.

[radicalbiscuit]

The example page, where I've noticed the issue: Comparison of MUTCD-Influenced Traffic Signs

Here's what's happening:

import wikipedia
mutcd = wikipedia.page('Comparison of MUTCD-Influenced Traffic Signs')
mutcd.sections

Which outputs [].

I would expect the section headers from the ToC to appear in the list as mentioned in the documentation. Let me know if I'm just doing it wrong!

[makarandtapaswi]

Hi I think this fixes it. Replace line 646 from wikipedia.py as follows:

query_params.update({'page': self.title})

Apparently the previous thing was essentially returning a dictionary {'titles': self.title} and titles was not a valid call in the API.

Here is an example -- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&prop=sections&page=MATLAB

I'm going to make a pull request now.

[lucas-tulio]

@makarandtapaswi I checked your pull request and I believe the attr check was necessary. Other than that, I made the exact same change. Feel free to try another pull request with my code if you want.

[foebu]

Any news regarding this issue? Has it been fixed and it will be included in the next release? Do you know if there is any workaround for the actual release?

[davidjmerritt]

Is this fix going to be moved to the main branch?

[nachogoro]

It has been well over two years since this bug was reported and fixed by different people. This is a serious bug affecting the most basic uses of the API. Will any of the fixes be merged into master?

[arjunkalburgi]

@goldsmith can you please merge? :)

[martin-majlis]

I was facing the same issue. And since it's almost 3 years and it doesn't look, that it will get fixed, I have created another simple library - Wikipedia-API

import wikipediaapi

wiki = wikipediaapi.Wikipedia('en')
mutcd = wiki.page('Comparison of MUTCD-Influenced Traffic Signs')
print("\n".join([s.title for s in mutcd.sections]))

Output:

Differences between MUTCD-influenced traffic signs
Table of traffic signs comparison
See also
Notes

[TrevorC85]

update on makarandtapaswi recommended changes. This still works but wikipedia.py line 646 shows:

query_params.update(self.__title_query_param) change to query_params.update({'page': self.title})