Unconsistant behavior while trying to get page.ns

[MorelElian]

I am trying to fetch all pages in one category, I want to be able to just get if the current page is a category and I don't want to retrieve other information about it.
But before and after fetching the summary I don't get the same result:

Example:

import wikipediaapi 
wiki = wikipediaapi.Wikipedia(user_agent='MyProjectName (merlin@example.com)    ', language='en')
physics = wiki.page("Category:Physics")
print(physics.ns)
physics.summary
print(physics.ns)

Output:

0
14

Config:
Python 3.12.3
wikipediaapi 0.11

Does anyone knows how to fix it ?

[martin-majlis]

@MorelElian : Before any value related to given page is fetched via API, it is returning information provided by the caller. So you have created it as a page => namespace 0, although it's category - namespace 14.

It should not behave like this, I will fix it.

[martin-majlis]

@MorelElian : When you check documentation -

Wikipedia-API/wikipediaapi/_resources/wikipedia_resource.py

Line 52 in 240c5dd

def page(

- you can see, that you have created that page with namespace = 0. After the data fetch it was changed to 14.

Namespace value is not influencing anything. If you know, that the page is category, you should use:

import wikipediaapi 
wiki = wikipediaapi.Wikipedia(user_agent='MyProjectName (merlin@example.com)    ', language='en')
physics = wiki.page("Category:Physics", wikipediaapi.Namespace.CATEGORY)
print(physics.ns)