In <7gdgslf2ogf8...@mid.uni-berlin.de> "Diez B. Roggisch" <de...@nospam.web.de> writes:
>kj schrieb: >> I want to send a POST request and have the returned content put >> directly into a file. Is there a way to do this easily in Python? >> I've been looking at the documentation for urllib2, but I can't >> see a direct way to do this, other than saving the returned contents >> to an in-memory variable and writing out the variable to a file. >> But this is precisely what I'd like to avoid. >You get a file-like object, what's wrong reading that chunkwise & >dumping that to a file? Or are 4KB blocksize to hard of a memory constraint? Actually, I discovered that urllib.urlretrieve does what I want. (I'd assumed that urllib2 superseded urllib, but apparently not.) kynn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
