Revision: 5983
Author: filnik
Date: 2008-10-16 16:49:37 +0000 (Thu, 16 Oct 2008)
Log Message:
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New function: pageAPInfo() to know if a page is a redirect or it's empty calling the
API to improve the performance in some situations
Modified Paths:
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trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py
Modified: trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py
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--- trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py 2008-10-16 16:49:27 UTC (rev 5982)
+++ trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py 2008-10-16 16:49:37 UTC (rev 5983)
@@ -885,6 +885,33 @@
return False
return True
+ def pageAPInfo(self):
+ """Return True if page exists on the wiki,
+ Raise IsRedirectPage if it's a redirect
+ Raise NoPage if the page doesn't exist
+
+ Using the API should be a lot faster.
+ Function done in order to improve the scripts performance.
+
+ """
+ params = {
+ 'action' :'query',
+ 'prop' :'info',
+ 'titles' :self.title(),
+ }
+ data = query.GetData(params,
+ useAPI = True, encodeTitle = False)
+ pageid = data['query']['pages'].keys()[0]
+ if data['query']['pages'][pageid].keys()[0] ==
'lastrevid':
+ return True
+ elif data['query']['pages'][pageid].keys()[0] ==
'redirect':
+ raise IsRedirectPage
+ else:
+ # should not exists, OR we have problems.
+ # better double check in this situations
+ x = self.get()
+ return True # if we reach this point, we had no problems.
+
def isRedirectPage(self):
"""Return True if this is a redirect, False if not or not
existing."""
try: