[Tutor] Download an image of a site?

Joseph Quigley cpu.crazy at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 16:51:09 CEST 2005


Kent Johnson wrote:
> I don't think the object returned from urllib2.urlopen() has save() and get()       > methods. According to the docs urlopen() "returns a file-like object with two
> additional methods:
>
>    * geturl() -- return the URL of the resource retrieved
>    * info() -- return the meta-information of the page, as a dictionary-like object"
>
> So you should treat data.f like an open file - use read() to get the contents into a > variable. Then open a real (disk) file for writing and write it out. This section of > the Python tutorial has a quick intro:
>  http://docs.python.org/tut/node9.html#SECTION009200000000000000000
>
> Kent


Thanks. I will check this out and let you know if I can get it to work.




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