How to open a remote file using python.

[Chris Rebert]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 9:02 PM, venutaurus539 at gmail.com
<venutaurus539 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 23, 9:25 am, MRAB <goo... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>> venutaurus... at gmail.com wrote:
>> > Hello all,
>> >            I am writing an application where I need to open a shared
>> > file on a remote machine using python script. I tried using the
>> > following function:
>>
>> > f = urllib.open("\\remote_machine\\folder1\\file1.doc")
>>
>> >          I also tried using
>>
>> > class urllib.FancyURLopener(...)
>>
>> >          but didn't work. Can some one help me in this regard.
>>
>> What do you mean by "remote machine"? Do you mean you want to open a
>> file that's in a shared folder on a machine that's on the same local
>> network?
>>
>> If it's meant to be a Windows filepath then it should be:
>>
>>      f = open(r"\\remote_machine\folder1\file1.doc")
>>
>> (If the file is a Microsoft Word document file, then you won't probably
>> be able to make much sense of its contents using open().)
>
> Thanks to all for your brisk replies:
>
>        Yes, my aim is to open a file from another machine in the same
> LAN. It also worked using
>
>>>f = urllib.urlopen("\\\remote_machine\\folder\\file.doc")
>
>        But now I also have to copy the same file to the local machine
> in Python. Do I need to follow any protocols for this?

You may find urllib.urlretrieve() useful for accomplishing that.

Cheers,
Chris

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