Newbie: urllib.urlretrieve()

[David C. Ullrich]

ez4gl <ez4glNOezSPAM at hotmail.com.invalid> wrote in article
<221ee89a.3bf4ca4b at usw-ex0102-016.remarq.com>...
> I'm trying to clone some Intranet pages for a contract
> assignment and thought Python would be a good tool because of
> it's urllib module.  However, when trying to use
> urllib.urlretrieve(), I have found that if you specify the
> second argument, the file for writing to has to already exist.

	Are you certain this is the problem? I don't have any
problem using urlretrieve(url, newfilename).