[issue8582] urllib.urlretrieve fails with ValueError: Invalid format string

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Fixed in trunk: r80675 release26-maint: r80676 py3K: r80677 release31-maint:r80678 -- resolution: -> fixed stage: unit test needed -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue8582] urllib.urlretrieve fails with ValueError: Invalid format string

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Here is the patch and the unittest for this issue. David: The tests does ensure coverage of urlretrieve method. - Changes %T to %H:%M:%S in strftime usage in retrieve. - Coverage of Date header of retrieved file according to format specified. David, any comme

[issue8582] urllib.urlretrieve fails with ValueError: Invalid format string

Changes by R. David Murray : -- stage: -> unit test needed type: crash -> behavior versions: +Python 2.6, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue8582] urllib.urlretrieve fails with ValueError: Invalid format string

R. David Murray added the comment: The fact that our docs don't mention it is a clue that it is platform dependent :) Theoretically it shouldn't be, since it is in Posix: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strftime.html but practically speaking it is, since Windows doe

[issue8582] urllib.urlretrieve fails with ValueError: Invalid format string

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: I guess the problem with specific to Windows. I don't see any problem with urlretrieve of a image/png url on Linux. And surprisingly, %T of time.strftime is undocumented: http://docs.python.org/library/time.html I wanted to check if that format specifier was

[issue8582] urllib.urlretrieve fails with ValueError: Invalid format string

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[issue8582] urllib.urlretrieve fails with ValueError: Invalid format string

New submission from Jason Gross : When calling urllib.urlretrieve with a data:image/png url (possibly with other urls too) and a local file name, it fails with Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in urlretrieve(url, file_name) File "D:\Python26\Lib\urllib.py", line 93, i