You are right Either the documentation or the implementation is wrong. I will try to find
out what was really meant; maybe the compat release can give a hint.
Thanks for investigating.
xqt
> Am 31.03.2024 um 17:34 schrieb Roy Smith <roy(a)panix.com>om>:
>
> The docs for BasePage.get() say:
>
> pywikibot.exceptions.IsRedirectPageError – The page is a redirect. The argument of
the exception is the title of the page it redirects to.
>
> but that doesn't seem to be what's actually happening:
>
>> from pywikibot import Site, Page
>> from pywikibot.exceptions import IsRedirectPageError
>>
>> site = Site("en")
>>
>> page = Page(site, "Template:shortdescription")
>> try:
>> print(page.get())
>> except IsRedirectPageError as ex:
>> print(f"{ex.args=}")
>
>
> prints
>
>> ex.args=(Page('Template:Shortdescription'),)
>
> Am I just not understanding the doc correctly?
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