<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, i want to automate some tasks of gathering photos from web, i tried > urllib/urllib2, both ended up without much success (saved gifs with > only a border, nothing else).. > > the code i used was: > > >>> data = urllib2.urlopen( "http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/img/komodo_aspn_other.gif";) > >>> #was looking through cookbook, so i used that as a sample image > >>> data = data.read() > >>> file = open("f:/test.gif", "w")
Since you appear to want to write binary data, you should use 'wb', not 'w', as the "mode". Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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