I have been unable to use wordpress_xmlrpc's EditPost to change an 'aside' or other non-standard format post back to standard. The basic code I am using is:

from wordpress_xmlrpc import Client, WordPressPost

import wordpress_xmlrpc.methods.posts as wpp



client = Client(...)

post = client.call(wpp.GetPost(n))



post.post_format = 'standard'

post.title = 'visited -- ' + post.title

post.content = 'visited -- ' + post.content

r = client.call(wpp.EditPost(post.id, post))

When I run this code I always see that the post in question was indeed "visited" by changes to title and content. But if the post had format 'aside', then running the code above does not change the format to 'standard'. (Trying None, 0, [] in place of 'standard' on the line above did not work either.)

However, if the post is format 'standard' and I run the code above with the one line changed to

post.post_format = 'aside'

then the post in question does change to format 'aside'.

How do I use EditPost to change a post's format to standard? Thanks!