Equivalent of 'wget' for python?

[Robert Dailey]

Hi,

I'm looking for a portable way to download ZIP files on the internet
through Python. I don't want to do os.system() to invoke 'wget', since
this isn't portable on Windows. I'm hoping the core python library has
a library for this. Note that I'll be using Python 3.0.

Thanks.

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hi,

I'm looking for a portable way to download ZIP files on the internet
through Python. I don't want to do os.system() to invoke 'wget', since
this isn't portable on Windows. I'm hoping the core python library has
a library for this. Note that I'll be using Python 3.0.

Module urllib2

Diez

 

[r0g]

Hi,

I'm looking for a portable way to download ZIP files on the internet
through Python. I don't want to do os.system() to invoke 'wget', since
this isn't portable on Windows. I'm hoping the core python library has
a library for this. Note that I'll be using Python 3.0.

Thanks.

urllib.urlretrieve(url_of_zip_file, destination_on_local_filesystem).

There's also a third argument you can use to link a progress update
function of your choosing if you need it.


Roger.

 

[Jerry Hill]

urllib.urlretrieve(url_of_zip_file, destination_on_local_filesystem).

In python 3.0, that appears to be:

import urllib.request
urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, local_file_name)

 

[Leo Jay]

Hi,

I'm looking for a portable way to download ZIP files on the internet
through Python. I don't want to do os.system() to invoke 'wget', since
this isn't portable on Windows. I'm hoping the core python library has
a library for this. Note that I'll be using Python 3.0.

You can get Wget for Windows here:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

 

[member thudfoo]

Hi,

I'm looking for a portable way to download ZIP files on the internet
through Python. I don't want to do os.system() to invoke 'wget', since
this isn't portable on Windows. I'm hoping the core python library has
a library for this. Note that I'll be using Python 3.0.

Thanks.

This module might be of interest:

http://linux.duke.edu/projects/urlgrabber/