1 Source: python-simplemediawiki
4 Maintainer: Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@debian.org>
5 Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), python (>=2.6), python-support
6 Standards-Version: 3.9.3
7 Homepage: https://github.com/ianweller/python-simplemediawiki
8 XS-Python-Version: >= 2.6
10 Package: python-simplemediawiki
12 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}
13 Provides: ${python:Provides}
14 XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}
15 Description: extremely low-level Python wrapper to the MediaWiki API
16 SimpleMediawiki is an extremely low-level wrapper to the MediaWiki
17 API. It automatically handles cookies and gzip compression so that
18 you can make basic calls to the API in the easiest way possible. It
19 also provides a few functions to make day-to-day API access easier.
21 To use this module, instantiate a MediaWiki object, passing it the
22 URL of api.php for the wiki you want to work with. Calls go through
23 MediaWiki.call(). A generic login wrapper as well as functions to
24 determine limits and get a list of namespaces are provided for your