[Tutor] HTTP file download

Tony Cappellini cappy2112 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 01:59:24 CET 2007


How do you handle a binary file?

Message: 4
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:23:44 +0100
From: "Jean-Philippe Durand" <yaguarovi at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Tutor] HTTP file download
To: "ronaldo at netf2r.com" <ronaldo at netf2r.com>
Cc: tutor at python.org
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Hello Ronaldo,
Try this :

import urllib
mysock = urllib.urlopen("http://www.somesite.com/file")
htmlSource = mysock.read()
mysock.close()
print htmlSource

Regards.
Jean-Philippe DURAND


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