[Tutor] Download file from the web and store it locally.

[Alan Gauld]

> I have changed the code as following but it still printing the 
> contains as something I don't know what it is instead of saving 
> locally!

You need to step back a bit and get a better understanding of 
variables
and functions and how to use them. You are trying to run before you
can walk.

> import urllib
> import sys
>
> # Get a file-like object from the web and store it locally.
>
> url = 
> "http://www.co.rowan.nc.us/enviroservs/planning_data/countyline.zip"
>
>
> # connect to the remote
> try:
>    remote = urllib.urlopen(url)
> except:
>    print "Connot open URL"
>    sys.exit()

At this stage you have a connection to the zip file.

> # Read from the object, storing the page's contents in 's'.
> s = f.read()

But here you are trying to read from f which doesn't exist!

> m = "D\\Temp\\file"

And here you assign a filename to m (except the filename
is invalid because it doesn't have a colon after the D)

> print remote.info()

Now this should print some info about your connection

> m = urllib.urlretrieve

Now you replace the filename with a function from the urllib module.

> print "Content:"
> print s
> print "Download Done"

You print out the contents of s which probanly are invalid
since f didn't exist.

> f.close()

And you close f which still doesn't exist.

You need to sit down and work through which variables you need
and which functions of urllib you need.

I suspect you only need to use urllib.urlretrieve() and your total
code should only be 3 or 4 lines long.

Alan G.