feature request for a wget -r like implementation in python3

[gert]

On Apr 16, 3:41 am, alex23 <wuwe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 16, 5:37 am, gert <gert.cuyk... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So I can make a recursive http download script
> > My goal is a one click instruction to install and launch my projecthttp://code.google.com/p/appwsgi/
>
> Here's Guido's take on wget:
>
>     import sys, urllib
>     def reporthook(*a): print a
>     for url in sys.argv[1:]:
>          i = url.rfind('/')
>          file = url[i+1:]
>          print url, "->", file
>          urllib.urlretrieve(url, file, reporthook)
>
> If you extend this, you can offer an easy-download-and-run python
> script that does the installation you want.
>

Guido is not talking about the same wget -r I think
I expected something like this

def hook(url):print(url)
def dir(url):
    with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as f:
        for u in f:
            s=u.decode('latin1')
            m=re.search('<li>.*href="([^\.].*)"',s)
            if m:
                t=url+m.group(1)
                if t[-1]=='/': dir(t)
                else:
                    d=os.path.dirname(t[33:])
                    if d=='': d='./'
                    if not os.path.exists(d):
os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(t[33:]))
                    urllib.request.urlretrieve(t,t[33:],hook(t))
dir('http://appwsgi.googlecode.com/hg/')

How do I get rit of 33:

> But why duplicate existing effort? Why not pip[1]?
> 1:http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip

pip is a chainsaw, I need a pocket knife