urlretrieve a file whose name has spaces in it

[Irmen de Jong]

HP wrote:
> urllib.urlretrieve("http://website.com/path/string string1 foo.doc",
> "local_file");
> 

Try

urllib.urlretrieve(urllib.quote("http://website.com/path/string string1 foo.doc"), "local_file")

instead.

And what is the semicolon doing there? ;-)

--Irmen