Python urllib.urlretrieve vs. Perl getstore

[Adam S]

Python code snippet:
"file_url" is something like
"http://servername.intranet.company.com/serverspace/stored_file.tar.gz"
file_name is something like "/export/tmp/directory".

urllib.urlretrieve(file_url,file_name) # download the file

I'm running Python 2.2.

The perl 5.6.1 version uses 'getstore'

Adam

holger krekel wrote:
> Please be more specific and post relevant code-snippets and
> which python-library you use.
> 
> IMO perl's as well as python's retrieving functions should be
> 99% IO-bound meaning that there shouldn't be a speed
> difference unless you are having a Gigabit-Internet-Connection :-)
> 
> regards,
> 
>     holger