File Downloading

[Irmen de Jong]

Denis S. Otkidach wrote:
> On 13 Aug 2002, Hiata wrote:
> 
> H> I need a script to download a file (any kind of file).
> H> Can you help me?
> 
> from shutil import copyfileobj
> from urllib import urlopen
> 
> in_fp = urlopen(remote_url)
> out_fp = open(local_file, 'wb')
> copyfileobj(in_fp, out_fp)
> 

Ofcourse, if you're running linux or Windows+cygwin you may want to

man curl
man wget


Irmen