https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65971

Bug ID: 65971 Summary: saving a page with empty text should be allowed with force flag Product: Pywikibot Version: core (2.0) Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: Unprioritized Component: General Assignee: Pywikipedia-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org Reporter: ian@iankelling.org Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: ---

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikipedia-l/2014-May/008740.html

There is a force flag, in the code, but it is not used to allow saving empty pages. It should be. Probably an easy fix along with this is that the correct exception is caught in Page._save and not re-raised - instead, a different Exception is raised, which makes it harder to debug the code.

Here is an example script, and the error when running it

import pywikibot site = pywikibot.Site() page = pywikibot.Page(site, "MediaWiki:Lastmodifiedat") page.text = "" page.save()

Logging in to ianwiki:en as Ian Kelling Traceback (most recent call last): File "pwb.py", line 143, in <module> run_python_file(fn, argv, argvu) File "pwb.py", line 67, in run_python_file exec(compile(source, filename, "exec"), main_mod.__dict__) File "scripts/iansetup.py", line 5, in <module> page.save() File "/a/opt/pywikibot/pywikibot/page.py", line 858, in save **kwargs) File "/a/opt/pywikibot/pywikibot/page.py", line 884, in _save raise pywikibot.PageNotSaved("%s: %s" % (link, err)) pywikibot.exceptions.PageNotSaved CRITICAL: Waiting for 1 network thread(s) to finish. Press ctrl-c to abort <class 'pywikibot.exceptions.PageNotSaved'>

The cause is in site.py, in def editpage, line 2699:

if not text: raise Error("editpage: no text to be saved")