https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68725

Bug ID: 68725 Summary: import of compat SVN working copy requires internet connection Product: Pywikibot Version: compat (1.0) Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: Unprioritized Component: General Assignee: Pywikipedia-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org Reporter: sebastian.bank@uni-leipzig.de Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: ---

wikipedia.py retrieves version.getversiondict()["rev"] to set the User-agent when imported.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/86374/ changed version.getversion_svn() to unconditionally ask github for the git-hash. However, the hash itself isn't actually used in wikipedia.py (see also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54686).

This undermines e.g. to unpickle previously saved page objects when access to github.com does not work. It also seems an unpleasant thing, to make such a roundtrip every time the library is imported, right?

Maybe getversiondict() and the code it dispatches to can get an opt-out (not to retrieve information by speaking to the network) to be used in the User-agent case.

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import wikipedia

Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module> import wikipedia File "wikipedia.py", line 6023, in <module> versionrev=(version.getversiondict()["rev"]) File "pywikibot\version.py", line 58, in getversiondict (tag, rev, date, hsh) = getversion_svn(_program_dir) File "pywikibot\version.py", line 151, in getversion_svn {'Label': rev, 'User-Agent': 'SVN/1.7.5-pywikibot1'}) File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 995, in request self._send_request(method, url, body, headers) File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 1029, in _send_request self.endheaders(body) File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 991, in endheaders self._send_output(message_body) File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 844, in _send_output self.send(msg) File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 806, in send self.connect() File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 1194, in connect self.timeout, self.source_address) File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\socket.py", line 553, in create_connection for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM): gaierror: [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed

Pywikibot: pywikibot-compat (8317312, s11008, 2014/07/27, 11:54:19, ok) Release version: 1.0b1 Python: 2.7.8 (default, Jun 30 2014, 16:08:48) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] config-settings: use_api = True use_api_login = True unicode test: ok