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())
>>
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