https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66256

Bug ID: 66256 Summary: Category.articles() total parameter must not be None Product: Pywikibot Version: core (2.0) Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: Unprioritized Component: General Assignee: Pywikipedia-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org Reporter: info@gno.de Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: ---

If total parameter is None, the generator sometimes does not yield any pages but gives an 503 status error:

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import pwb import pywikibot as py s = py.Site('commons', 'commons') c = py.Category(s, 'Korea.net_photos_to_check') for p in c.articles(total=10, content=False, recurse=False, step=None):

print p.title()

File:Kim Yu-na G20 Seoul Summit Ambassador.jpg File:KOCIS 150m-long kimbap (5911816764).jpg File:KOCIS 150m-long kimbap (5911817226).jpg File:KOCIS 2010 UNESCO World Conference of Arts Education (4640759629).jpg File:KOCIS 2010 UNESCO World Conference of Arts Education (4641367198).jpg File:KOCIS 2010 UNESCO World Conference of Arts Education (4641367274).jpg File:KOCIS 2010 UNESCO World Conference of Arts Education (4641367322).jpg File:KOCIS 2012 Yeosu Expo (7548642068).jpg File:KOCIS 2012 Yeosu Expo (7548642206).jpg File:KOCIS 38th Annual Los Angeles Korean Festival (6301325981).jpg

whereas total=None fails into 503 loop

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for p in c.articles(total=None, content=False, recurse=False, step=None):

print p.title()

WARNING: Http response status 503 WARNING: Non-JSON response received from server commons:commons; the server may be down. Set gcmlimit = 2500 WARNING: Waiting 5 seconds before retrying.

Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#20>", line 1, in <module> for p in c.articles(total=None, content=False, recurse=False, step=None): File "pywikibot\page.py", line 1909, in articles endsort=endsort File "pywikibot\data\api.py", line 719, in __iter__ self.data = self.request.submit() File "pywikibot\data\api.py", line 306, in submit body=paramstring) File "pywikibot\comms\http.py", line 144, in request time.sleep(0.1) KeyboardInterrupt

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