Ulli Horlacher <frams...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote: > Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
> > - consider shutil.copyfileobj to limit memory usage when dealing with data > > of arbitrary size. > > > > Putting it together: > > > > with open(sz, "wb") as szo: > > shutil.copyfileobj(u, szo) > > This writes the http stream binary to the file. without handling it > manually chunk by chunk? I have a problem with it: There is no feedback for the user about the progress of the transfer, which can last several hours. For small files shutil.copyfileobj() is a good idea, but not for huge ones. -- Ullrich Horlacher Server und Virtualisierung Rechenzentrum IZUS/TIK E-Mail: horlac...@tik.uni-stuttgart.de Universitaet Stuttgart Tel: ++49-711-68565868 Allmandring 30a Fax: ++49-711-682357 70550 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
