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(Cloned from bug 55068 comment 10)

pywikbot api.py has a hard-coded list of 'write' actions, which cause it to assert the user is logged in.

This should be converted to a detection algorithm (using API action paraminfo)

Ideally, a persistent cache should be set up to remember the 'paraminfo' data.

For example, the "writerights" property would enable assertion, while "tokentype" would help guessing the required token type automatically.

E.g.:
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=thank