urlretrieve() or urlopen() ??

[MCollins at co.seminole.fl.us]

hi,

still working on the utility to download log files via http.

my first solution (which worked) was using urlopen(), reading the logfile
line by line and writing it to a new file line by line.  this felt a little
slow when working with 200mb files across an http connection.

so, i switched to urlretrieve(), thinking that would be faster.  however,
with urlretrieve() i get a "no buffer space available" error.

i can always go back to the urlopen code, because that worked.  however,
any suggestions on ensuring i'm using the fastest process here?

thanks


code:

######
##this is the code that worked
######

def GetUrl(Url,Path):
    http = urllib.urlopen(Url)


    line =  http.readline()
    logfile = open(Path, "w")
    while line != "":
        logfile.writelines(line)
        line = http.readline()
    else:
        logfile.close()


######
###this is the new, broken code
#####

def GetUrl(Url,Path):
    from urllib import urlretrieve, urlcleanup
    urlretrieve(Url,Path)
    urlcleanup()





Matthew Collins
Web Designer/Developer
Seminole County, FL
http://www.co.seminole.fl.us