[Baypiggies] Using urllib2 to print file contents line-by-line

[ken barclay]

I'm running the backend on a Centos box.

I do have a workaround but it requires an extra step from the user - I just print out the url on the output page, and when the user clicks the link, the browser takes care of loading the file into the browser and it looks exactly like it does in the file.

Would be nice to avoid that step but it's not critical - Thanks Aahz.

--- On Sat, 12/19/09, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:

From: Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com>
Subject: Re: [Baypiggies] Using urllib2 to print file contents line-by-line
To: baypiggies at python.org
Date: Saturday, December 19, 2009, 4:22 PM

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009, ken barclay wrote:
>
> I'm trying to do something simple - I want to print the contents of
> files that are staged on a web server back to the browser. I loop over
> the file-like object that comes back in the response:
>
> ??????? import urllib2
> ??????? req = urllib2.Request(href)
> ??????? response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
> ??????? for line in response:
> ??????? print line
> 
> But I want the lines to appear in the browser exactly like they do
> in the file - with each one on a new line (because it's columnar
> data.) The problem is: this approach doesn't work because the first
> 'print' is printing out the whole response in one big stream (ignoring
> newlines).

What OS are you on?  You are probably running into newline variations,
and I'm not sure whether you can set universal newlines on an
already-opened file.
-- 
Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com)           <*>         http://www.pythoncraft.com/

Looking back over the years, after I learned Python I realized that I
never really had enjoyed programming before.
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