What module to use to get a file from a website?

[SolaFide]

I'm sure this is builtin, I just don't know what module. Thank you for
any help!

Billt

 

[Sybren Stuvel]

SolaFide enlightened us with:

I'm sure this is builtin, I just don't know what module. Thank you
for any help!

urllib, read the excellent free book "dive into python" at
http://www.diveintopython.org/ for examples and usage.

Sybren

 

[draghuram]

urllib2.urlopen()

 

[SolaFide]

Thanks!

 

[gene tani]

curl and wget are the most robust ways to do this

http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-and-python

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html

 

[Jonathan Conrad]

from os import system
system ("start http://www.python.org/")