pywikipedia.watchlist

Package pywikipedia :: Module watchlist

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Module pywikipedia.watchlist

Allows access to the bot account's watchlist.

The function refresh() downloads the current watchlist and saves
it to disk. It is run automatically when a bot first tries to save a page
retrieved via XML Export. The watchlist can be updated manually by running
this script. The list will also be reloaded automatically once a month.

Syntax: python watchlist [-all]

Command line options:
    -all  -  Reloads watchlists for all wikis where a watchlist is already
             present

Function Summary
	`get(site)`
	`isWatched(pageName, site)`
	`main()`
	`makepath(path)` creates missing directories for the given path and returns a normalized absolute version of the path.
	`refresh(site)`
	`refresh_all()`

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

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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