Revision: 5834 Author: russblau Date: 2008-08-22 13:51:08 +0000 (Fri, 22 Aug 2008)

Log Message: ----------- Allow overriding sys.argv in handleArgs()

Modified Paths: -------------- trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py

Modified: trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py =================================================================== --- trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py 2008-08-22 13:42:58 UTC (rev 5833) +++ trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py 2008-08-22 13:51:08 UTC (rev 5834) @@ -5964,17 +5964,21 @@ # I don't know how non-Western Windows versions behave. return unicode(arg, config.console_encoding)

-def handleArgs(): +def handleArgs(*args): """Handle standard command line arguments, return the rest as a list.

Takes the commandline arguments, converts them to Unicode, processes all global parameters such as -lang or -log. Returns a list of all arguments that are not global. This makes sure that global arguments are applied first, regardless of the order in which the arguments were given. + + args may be passed as an argument, thereby overriding sys.argv + """ global default_code, default_family, verbose # get commandline arguments - args = sys.argv + if not args: + args = sys.argv # get the name of the module calling this function. This is # required because the -help option loads the module's docstring and because # the module name will be used for the filename of the log.