Monty wrote: > Hello, > Sorry for this maybe stupid newbie question but I didn't find any > answer in all my readings about python: > > With urllib, using urlretrieve, it's possible to get the number of > blocks transferred and the total size of the file. > > Is it possible to get those informations with urllib2 ? > > ( I have to use urllib2 and a Request Object with headers, urlretieve > doesn't work. Well, at least, all my attempts with urllib were > denied...) >
urllib2.urlopen(req) returns a handle on the URL. This handle has various properties - if a content length header was sent it will include that. If you read from the url in a loop you can do this : . h = urllib2.urlopen(req) . print h.info() . page = '' . count = 0 . n = 100 # number of bytes to read at a time . while True: . a = h.read(n) . if not a: break . count += len(a) # len(a) may not be same as n for final read . page += a # prob. better to append to a list and do ''.join(a) afterwards . print 'Now transferred %s bytes.' % count Does this help ? Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml > Thanks for any help, > > Monty -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
