On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:56:04 +0200, Gilles Ganault wrote: > I'm trying to use urllib to download web pages with the GET method, but > Python 2.5.1 on Windows turns the URL into something funny: > > ======== > url = "amazon.fr/search/index.php?url=search"
This "URL" lacks the protocol! Correct would be http://amazon.fr… (I guess). > [...] > > IOError: [Errno 2] The system cannot find the path specified: > 'amazon.fr\\search\\index.php?url=search' Without protocol it seems that the 'file://' protocol is used and there is no such file on your system. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list