erikcw wrote: > ...download just the first few lines of a large (50mb) text file form a > server to save bandwidth..... Something like the Python equivalent of curl > http://url.com/file.xml | head -c 2048
If you're OK calling curl and head from within python: from subprocess import Popen, PIPE url = "http://docs.python.org/"; p1 = Popen(["curl", url], stdout = PIPE, stderr = PIPE) p2 = Popen(["head", "-c", "1024"], stdin = p1.stdout, stdout = PIPE) p2.communicate()[0] If you want a pure python approach: import urllib2 url = "http://docs.python.org/"; req = urllib2.Request(url) f = urllib2.urlopen(req) f.read(1024) HTH, Ben -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
