import urllib.request
import urllib.parse
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

def get_wikipage_text(title):
    request_parameters = {
            "action": "query",
            "format": "xml",
            "export": 1,
            "exportnowrap": 1,
            "titles": title,
            "redirects": 1
        }
    request_data = urllib.parse.urlencode(request_parameters)
    request_data = request_data.encode('utf8')
    wikipage_request = urllib.request.Request("https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php", request_data)
    print(wikipage_request)
    with urllib.request.urlopen(wikipage_request) as wikipage_response:
        # with open("Wiktionary-20170813141826.xml", "r", encoding="utf-8") as wikipage_response:
        wikipage_string = wikipage_response.read()
        root = ET.fromstring(wikipage_string)
        ns = {"mwns": "http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.10/"}
        # wikipage_text_string = root.find("./mwns:page/mwns:title", ns).text
        wikipage_text_string = root.find("./mwns:page/mwns:revision/mwns:text", ns).text
        # ET.dump(root)
        # print(wikipage_text_string)
        return wikipage_text_string