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From: John Greeley <JohnGreeley@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 12:22:12 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [#166] Fix login on older MW versions
Attempting to fetch a login token will raise an APIError on older
MediaWiki versions (tested on v1.20.2), so we need to catch it.
---
mwclient/client.py | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mwclient/client.py b/mwclient/client.py
index 97b8b2b..35c36c6 100644
--- a/mwclient/client.py
+++ b/mwclient/client.py
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ class Site(object):
# have to try. If the attempt fails, we try the old method.
try:
kwargs['lgtoken'] = self.get_token('login')
- except KeyError:
+ except (errors.APIError, KeyError):
log.debug('Failed to get login token, MediaWiki is older than 1.27.')
while True:
--
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