monkeys paw <mon...@joemoney.net> writes: > I used the following code to download a PDF file, but the > file was invalid after running the code, is there problem > with the write operation? > > import urllib2 > url = 'http://www.whirlpoolwaterheaters.com/downloads/6510413.pdf' > a = open('adobe.pdf', 'w') > for line in urllib2.urlopen(url): > a.write(line)
pdf is /not/ text. You're processing it like it's a text file (and storing it like it's text, which on Windows is most likely a no no). import urllib2 url = 'http://www.whirlpoolwaterheaters.com/downloads/6510413.pdf' response = urllib2.urlopen(url) fh = open('adobe.pdf', 'wb') fh.write(response.read()) fh.close() response.close() -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
