[Moin-user] making a macro to tell the page rev number

[Kirby Moyers]

I'm having trouble making a macro to tell the page rev number
and last rev date.  My short poor attempt is listed below.  I am a
fairly experienced coder, but have never worked with python before.

The calculation of the rev number works sometimes, but
other times makes an error "unsubscriptable", I guess
because the expression did not return a list.  Is there
a more reliable way to get the rev number?

The rev date calculation is just me taking shots
in the dark.  I have no firm idea how to find this value.

Anyone got an idea how to find these two values?

As last ditch, I guess I could try to go find the edit-log
file and read out the last line, but that seemed to violate
the general flow of the 1.8.5 moinmoin code.

Thanks in advance for any help!!
-Kirby


from MoinMoin.wikiutil import get_unicode, get_bool, get_int, get_float

Dependencies = []
generates_headings = False

def macro_PageRevision(macro):
    # arguments passed in can be None or a unicode object

    Dependencies = ["pages"] # is this right??

    # saw suggestion: macro.form.get("rev")   which sometimes produces [u'25']
    # saw suggestion: macro.request.page.rev  which always produces 0

    thisrev = int(macro.form.get("rev")[0])+1   # this actually worked sometimes
    thistim = macro.form.get('time', [''])[0]   # this never worked

    return macro.formatter.text("Rev "+thisrev+" "+thistim)