Resuming a file download with python

[Dan Schmidt]

"Robert Harris" <Robert.Harris at gmx.net> writes:

| I want to resume a file download with python. It would be
| either the http or ftp protocol used. How could I do it or isn't
| it possible ? I browsed through the docs of the http and ftp objects
| but didn't find anything.

ftplib started supporting this in 2.0 (two days after I hacked it into
my own copy of the library :).  retrbinary() now takes an optional
'rest' parameter to tell it how many bytes into the file to seek
before starting to download.

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