Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Oversimplification of pywikipediabot - intended or work in progress?

Hello, I'm trying to convert a fairly large set of scripts from compat to core and I found a significant loss of functionality in getting image and template info. While writing this, I've noticed that the latest version of core also has some of these prblems. I will elaborate on this loss of functionality below, but I would like to know if this simplification is intended or if this is part of some work in progress. For the image parsing, the function linkedPages(withImageLinks = True) used to provide images that were not included through templates, while imageLinks would provide all the images. In core, the linkedPages function no longer provides this capability, and I haven't found any replacement (I ported the old function in my code) For template parsing, templatesWithParams from class Page used to provide a pair containing the template name and a list of parameters, with the full "key=value" string. Nowadays, we're getting a dictionary instead of that list. Normally there is nothing wrong with that, except that in Python 2 the dictionary is unordered, which means that: * the order of the parameters is forever lost * the original text cannot be reconstructed (because of the above and the missing whitespace information) - this means there is no easy way to identify and/or replace a particular instance of the template in a page with many identical templates. It used to be you could do it with simple find/replace operations, now it takes some more work. I personally would like to have the old behavior back, it would save me and probably others a lot of work. Thanks, Strainu _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list Pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l