need help

[juvy j]

Hi tkc,

Thanks so much.. it works! :-)
I used  the urllib.

and thanks also to everybody who replied.

jtj

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Tim Chase
<python.list at tim.thechases.com>wrote:

>  Thanks for you reply. I am newbie in python.
>> Im going to use HTTP.
>>
>
> If all you want is to download a file, you might want to look into using
> "wget" or "curl" (which work for both HTTP and FTP).  E.g.
>
>  bash$ wget http://myothermachine/path/to/file.html
>
> However, if you need to roll it into a script, Python's urllib module will
> do the trick
>
>  >>> import urllib
>  >>> url = "http://myothermachine/path/to/file.html"
>  >>> f = urlib.urlopen(url)
>  >>> out = file('python.txt', 'w')
>  >>> for line in f: out.write(line)
>  ...
>  >>> out.close()
>  >>> f.close()
>
> If the content is small, you can just use
>
>  >>> content = f.read()
>  >>> out.write(content)
>
> instead of the "for line in f: out.write(line)".  If you need to actually
> parse the HTML that's returned, the common suggestion is to use the
> BeautifulSoup add-on module which has worked for my needs.
>
> -tkc
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