[Python-ideas] Python as a tool to download stuff for bootstrapping

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

2012/7/5 anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>:
> This makes me kind of sad. You have Python installed. Why can't you
> just crossplatformly do:
>
>   mkdir nacl
>   cd nacl
>   python -m urllib get
> http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/nativeclient-mirror/nacl/nacl_sdk/update_sdk.py
>   python update_sdk.py

I'm sure there is already a way with standard python tools. Something
along these lines:

python -c "from urllib.request import urlretrieve; urlretrieve('URL',
'update_sdk.zip')"
python -m update_sdk.zip

The second command will work if the zip file has a __main__.py.
Do you think we need other tools?

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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc