How to use Pywikibot to download only a few selected pages?

Question

How to use Pywikibot to extract only a single page or a few pages along with the revision histories from a MediaWiki wiki, instead of the whole wiki?

Answer 1

Are you dead set on using pywikibot? I'm biased because I help develop it, but I'd use dumpgenerator.py, but you need to alter the list of titles manually.

There is a feature request for a comment line argument though, it was asked before.