urlretrieve a file whose name has spaces in it

[Skip Montanaro]

    Kevin> You can easily escape spaces with "%20" as in:

    Kevin> urllib.urlretrieve("http://website.com/path/string string1
    Kevin> foo.doc".replace(" ", "%20"), "local_file")

Better yet, use url.quote() to make sure all special characters get quoted
in the right way depending on where they are in the URL:

    import urllib
    help(urllib.quote)

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