I think that's an interesting question, if you see it from this point of view: "As soon as a Page object has been created, is it possible to get its length without getting it? Page.get() is much slower than creating a Page obiect, and there's a lot of attributes/methods that can be read immediately, while other attributes need one Page.get(). Could be a Page.getSize() a "first class method", that a user can read immediately?
Alex 2013/6/13 Merlijn van Deen <[email protected]> > Hi Strainu, > > On 13 June 2013 17:07, Strainu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is there some reason why the Page class does not have a getSize >> function, except the fact that it's trivial to obtain it from .get() ? >> > > I don't think there was a specific design decision not to implement it, > other than 'no-one ever needed it'. It's also not entirely clear what > 'size' means in this context: the number of characters, the number of bytes > in a given encoding. > > What is the use case where you think it would be useful? > > Best, > Merlijn > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > >
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