Aahz wrote:
monkeys paw <mon...@joemoney.net> wrote:
On 2/23/2010 3:17 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
Sure you don't need this to be 'wb' instead of 'w'?
'wb' does the trick. Thanks all!
import urllib2
a = open('adobe.pdf', 'wb')
i = 0
for line in
urllib2.urlopen('http://www.whirlpoolwaterheaters.com/downloads/6510413.pdf'):
i = i + 1
a.write(line)
Using a for loop here is still a BAD IDEA -- line could easily end up
megabytes in size (though that is statistically unlikely).
Just so the OP has it, dealing with binary files without reading
the entire content into memory would look something like
from urllib2 import urlopen
CHUNK_SIZE = 1024*4 # 4k, why not?
OUT_NAME = 'out.pdf'
a = open(OUT_NAME, 'wb')
u = urlopen(URL)
bytes_read = 0
while True:
data = u.read(CHUNK_SIZE)
if not data: break
a.write(data)
bytes_read += len(data)
print "Wrote %i bytes to %s" % (
bytes_read, OUT_NAME)
-tkc
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