Revision: 5328 Author: nicdumz Date: 2008-05-07 23:23:11 +0000 (Wed, 07 May 2008)

Log Message: ----------- Adding Site.getcurrenttimestamp() , useful for Special:Log which is now relying on timestamps

Modified Paths: -------------- branches/rewrite/pywikibot/site.py

Modified: branches/rewrite/pywikibot/site.py =================================================================== --- branches/rewrite/pywikibot/site.py 2008-05-07 22:58:16 UTC (rev 5327) +++ branches/rewrite/pywikibot/site.py 2008-05-07 23:23:11 UTC (rev 5328) @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import os import sys import threading +import re

class PageInUse(pywikibot.Error): @@ -428,6 +429,16 @@ self._userinfo = uidata['query']['userinfo'] return self._userinfo

+ def getcurrenttimestamp(self): + """Returns a (Mediawiki) timestamp, {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}, + the server time. + Format is yyyymmddhhmmss""" + r = api.Request(site=self, + action="parse", + text="{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}") + result = r.submit() + return re.search('\d+', result['parse']['text']['*']).group() + def getsiteinfo(self): """Retrieve siteinfo from site and store in _siteinfo attribute.""" if not hasattr(self, "_siteinfo"):