zljubi...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > if I put the link in the browser, I will be offered to save the file to > the local disk. > > If I execute these few lines of code, I will get None: > > import urllib.request > > url = 'http://radio.hrt.hr/prvi-program/aod/download/118467/' > site = urllib.request.urlopen(url) > print('File size:', site.length) > > Why I can't get the size of this particular file? > On other servers, the same procedure would return file size in bytes, but > not for this file? > > Does it depend on server itself, or there is a way to get remote file size > before downloading? > > Regards.
Hello, urlopen returns an HttpResponse object(https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.client.html#httpresponse-objects). You need to call read() on the return value to get the page content, or you could consider the getheader method to check for a Content- Length header. Hope that helps, Kev -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
