I don't think loggedInAs() has the same functionality as I proposed. First of all, it is deprecated. In addition, it just return self.logged_in(sysop) and self.user(), and neither self.logged_in(sysop) nor self.user() does login.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:13 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > See site.loggedInAs() > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Sorawee Porncharoenwase < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I think that we should have a function which tries to login and return >> the status whether that logging in is successful. What we currently do (for >> example in APISite.deletepage()) is that we "try: site.login(sysop=True) >> except pywikibot.NoUsername: blah blah" Isn't it better to have something >> like "if site.loginABC(sysop=True): blah blah else: blah blah" >> >> So, I write this email to ask two things. >> First, should we have site.loginABC()? >> Second, if we should have that function, what should be the name of that >> function? >> >> (see also >> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikipedia-bugs/2014-January/007200.html; >> I think we need site.loginABC() there instead of site.logged_in()) >> >> -- >> Sorawee Porncharoenwase >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pywikipedia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > > -- Sorawee Porncharoenwase
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