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There is no protect functionality in core yet!

valhallasw@lisilwen:~/src/pwb/pywikibot-core$ python pwb.py protect -links:User:Valhallasw/linkpage -site:test -family:test
Processing page User:Valhallasw
Do you want to change the protection level of [[test:User:Valhallasw]]? ([Y]es, [N]o, [A]ll) Y
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "pwb.py", line 123, in <module>
    run_python_file(fn, argv, argvu)
  File "pwb.py", line 64, in run_python_file
    exec compile(source, filename, "exec") in main_mod.__dict__
  File "scripts/protect.py", line 286, in <module>
    main()
  File "scripts/protect.py", line 280, in main
    bot.run()
  File "scripts/protect.py", line 137, in run
    move=self.move)
  File "/home/valhallasw/src/pwb/pywikibot-core/pywikibot/__init__.py", line 251, in wrapper
    return method(*__args, **__kw)
  File "/home/valhallasw/src/pwb/pywikibot-core/pywikibot/page.py", line 1417, in protect
    return self.site.protect(self, edit, move, reason)
  File "/home/valhallasw/src/pwb/pywikibot-core/pywikibot/site.py", line 230, in __getattr__
    % (self.__class__.__name__, attr))
AttributeError: APISite instance has no attribute 'protect'