pywikipedia.mediawiki

Package pywikipedia :: Module mediawiki_messages

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Module pywikipedia.mediawiki_messages

Allows access to the MediaWiki messages, that's the label texts of the MediaWiki
software in the current language. These can be used in other bots.

The function refresh_messages() downloads all the current messages and saves
them to disk. It is run automatically when a bot first tries to access one of
the messages. It can be updated manually by running this script, e.g. when
somebody changed the current message at the wiki. The texts will also be
reloaded automatically once a month.

Syntax: python mediawiki_messages [-all] [-debug]

Command line options:
    -all  -  Reloads messages for all wikis where messages are already present
    -debug  -  Shows example messages after loading

Function Summary
	`get(key, site)`
	`main()`
	`makepath(path)` creates missing directories for the given path and returns a normalized absolute version of the path.
	`refresh_all_messages()`
	`refresh_messages(site)`

Imported modules:: os, pickle, re, sys, time, pywikipedia.wikipedia
Imported variables:: loaded

Function Details

makepath(path)

creates missing directories for the given path and
    returns a normalized absolute version of the path.

- if the given path already exists in the filesystem
  the filesystem is not modified.

- otherwise makepath creates directories along the given path
  using the dirname() of the path. You may append
  a '/' to the path if you want it to be a directory path.

from holger@trillke.net 2002/03/18

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