Editing a wiki

Diez B. Roggisch deets at nospam.web.de
Tue Aug 18 17:18:36 EDT 2009


KillSwitch schrieb:
> Hey guys,
> Is it possible to edit a wiki page with python, including logging in
> to edit the page, and inserting text into the edit box, etc. I was
> thinking maybe python would be the language to do this in, because I
> have to iterate through every line in a text file and gather info
> about what to enter in the wiki that way, then put that text in a wiki
> page. It's sort of a program-documenting program. If it's possible to
> do this, I would make a special way of entering comments in the source
> files, like maybe --[[##title code here]] and then --[[@@code example
> here]] with the two symbols at the beginning of the comment dictating
> what to enter where. Thanks for any input.

Take a look at mechanize, which is a python web-client impostor thingy - 
it should be easy to use for this purpose.


Diez



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