Servando Garcia wrote: > Hello list > I am on challenge 5. I think I need to some how download a file. I have > been trying like so > > X=urllib.URLopener(name,proxies={'http':'URL').distutils.copy_file('SomeFileName') urlopener() returns a file-like object - something that behaves like an open file. Try x = urllib.urlopener(name) data = x.read() Kent