Ulli Horlacher wrote: > I am currently developing a program which should run on Linux and Windows. > Later it shall be compiled with PyInstaller. Therefore I am using Python > 2.7 > > My program must download http://fex.belwue.de/download/7za.exe > > I am using this code:
> It works with Linux, but not with Windows 7, where the downloaded 7za.exe > is corrupt: it has the wrong size, 589044 instead of 587776 Bytes. > > Where is my error? > sz = path.join(fexhome,'7za.exe') > szurl = "http://fex.belwue.de/download/7za.exe"; > > try: > szo = open(sz,'w') Open the file in binary mode to avoid the translation of "\n" into "\r\n": szo = open(sz, 'wb') > except (IOError,OSError) as e: > die('cannot write %s - %s' % (sz,e.strerror)) Unrelated, but I recommend that you let the exceptions bubble up for easier debugging. Python is not Perl ;) > import urllib2 > printf("\ndownloading %s\n",szurl) > try: > req = urllib2.Request(szurl) > req.add_header('User-Agent',useragent) > u = urllib2.urlopen(req) > except urllib2.URLError as e: > die('cannot get %s - %s' % (szurl,e.reason)) > except urllib2.HTTPError as e: > die('cannot get %s - server reply: %d %s' % (szurl,e.code,e.reason)) > if u.getcode() == 200: > print(u.read(),file=szo,end='') > szo.close() > else: > die('cannot get %s - server reply: %d' % (szurl,u.getcode())) > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
