text method would be like this:

def text(self):
        """Return the current (edited) wikitext, loading it if necessary.

        @return: unicode
        """
        kwargs = {}
        if not hasattr(self, '_text'):
            kwargs['force'] = True
        if not hasattr(self, '_text') or self._text is None:
            try:
                self._text = self.get(get_redirect=True, **kwargs)
            except pywikibot.NoPage:
                # TODO: what other exceptions might be returned?
                self._text = u""
        return self._text

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:38 PM, John <phoenixoverride@gmail.com> wrote:

Not a good idea, how do you save a blank page?

On Tuesday, September 2, 2014, Sorawee Porncharoenwase <nullzero.free@gmail.com> wrote:

I propose this change:

- set `page.text` to `None` to discard changes
- delete `page.text` to reload content -- equivalent to get(force=True)
- in Page.save(), if `page.text` is equal to unchanged text, no API call

- to touch a page, use page.touch(), which will call action="edit" & appendtext="", instead. The advantage is that there is no need to preload text.

Sorawee Porncharoenwase

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