python-simplemediawiki
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iliana
Extremely low-level wrapper to the MediaWiki API
I needed to login with user, password and domain, so I added the support for that. If you are still active it would be nice to merge this change (and...
When passing clean LWPCookieJar() object, it is retyped to False, which resulted in creating new CookieJar(). Comparison to None is necessary.
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.
Modified if statement to check if cookiejar is not None, because cookiejars support the iterator protocol. If you create a cookiejar and supply it to the constructor it will have...
It would be very useful if simplemediawiki automatically handled the process of acquiring various forms of edit tokens.
It would be very useful if simplemediawiki handled query continuations (via `continue` or `query-continue` automatically.
Improve discoverability of documentation by adding a link to the README. Addressed by https://github.com/ianweller/python-simplemediawiki/pull/10 .
``` 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...
Using [`requests`](http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/) instead of `urllib` to handle HTTP requests would improve security as well as code readability. `urllib` does not verify SSL certificates.