[#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 · Jul 31, 2017 · f1dc1c2 · f1dc1c2
1 parent 1650e0e
commit f1dc1c2
Showing 1 changed file with 1 addition and 1 deletion.
diff --git a/mwclient/client.py b/mwclient/client.py
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ def login(self, username=None, password=None, cookies=None, domain=None):
             # 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: