pywikipedia.category.CategoryDatabase

Package pywikipedia :: Module category :: Class CategoryDatabase

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Class CategoryDatabase

This is a temporary knowledge base saving for each category the contained subcategories and articles, so that category pages don't need to be loaded over and over again

Method Summary
	`__init__(self, rebuild, filename)`
	`dump(self, filename)` Saves the contents of the dictionaries superclassDB and catContentDB to disk.
	`getArticles(self, cat)` For a given category, return a list of Pages for all its articles.
	`getSubcats(self, supercat)` For a given supercategory, return a list of Categorys for all its subcategories.
	`getSupercats(self, subcat)`
	`rebuild(self)`

Method Details

dump(self, filename='category.dump.bz2')

Saves the contents of the dictionaries superclassDB and catContentDB to disk.

getArticles(self, cat)

For a given category, return a list of Pages for all its articles. Saves this list in a temporary database so that it won't be loaded from the server next time it's required.

getSubcats(self, supercat)

For a given supercategory, return a list of Categorys for all its subcategories. Saves this list in a temporary database so that it won't be loaded from the server next time it's required.

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