python : atlassian.errors.ApiValueError: No space or no content type, or setup a wrong version type set to content, or status param is not draft

Question

I am using confluence API (using python)to update an existing confluence page but I am facing the below error:

atlassian.errors.ApiValueError: No space or no content type, or setup a wrong version type set to content, or status param is not draft and status content is current

Strange thing is I was able to update the page before may be 10 times but its suddenly throwing an error. maybe i am missing something?

Can anyone please suggest what is missing. I am using below snippet:

confluence = Confluence(url=confluence_url,username=userid,password=password)

status = confluence.update_page(page_id, title, pagecontent)

pprint(status)

Answer 1

remove character \n, need to use a list of strings

Answer 2

I see the same error because my pagecontent contains <DC> in it and in HTML < and > need to be escaped.

Seems the third param of update_page require a valid html string.

You can use it escape method in python if you are using python 3.4+

from html import escape
from atlassian import Confluence


confluence = Confluence(url=confluence_url,username=userid,password=password)

status = confluence.update_page(page_id, title, escape(pagecontent))

pprint(status)