Downloading files using urllib in a for loop?

2006-02-15 Thread justsee
Hi, I'm using Python 2.3 on Windows for the first time, and am doing something wrong in using urllib to retrieve images from urls embedded in a csv file. If I explicitly specify a url and image name it works fine(commented example in the code), but if I pass in variables in this for loop it throws

Re: Downloading files using urllib in a for loop?

2006-02-15 Thread justsee
Thanks - but have printed and verified they are valid paths and filenames. One correction to the code I listed: theurl = imagepath[:-8] For some reason the values aren't being passed through urllib.urlretrieve properly but this makes no sense to me? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Downloading files using urllib in a for loop?

2006-02-15 Thread justsee
ah - thanks for your help, but what is happening is the first line being returned contains the field names from the csv file! Schoolboy errors :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list