Hello pywikipedia-l :)

Just found that bizarre line, among the old r5020 commit (mostly some unsignificant code cleanup)

Index: wikipedia.py =================================================================== --- wikipedia.py (révision 5019) +++ wikipedia.py (révision 5020) # leading colon implies main namespace instead of the default if t.startswith(':'): t = t[1:] self._namespace = 0 else: self._namespace = defaultNamespace

+ if not t: + raise Error(u"Invalid title '%s'" % title ) + + self._namespace = defaultNamespace

Since then, a Page object has always the defaultNamespace namespace (!), which is what caught my attention.

However, what's that semicolon test two lines before ? If a title starts by ':', it's in the main namespace ? I'm not quite sure of this...