Unpythonic Python

[Rob Williscroft]

David Abrahams wrote in news:uzn4j2s38.fsf at boost-consulting.com in
comp.lang.python: 

>> That's not the problem.  I can download the file reliably from other
>> machines. 

At the same time, using http ?

> 
> Actually it appears that urllib is having some problem on Unix, at
> least the one from Python-2.2.x.  This fails on Both FreeBSD and
> Linux:
> 
>   urllib.urlretrieve(
>         'http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/boost-cvsroot.tar.bz2',
>         'boost-cvsroot.tar.bz2')
> 
> Trying again with Python 2.3 on Cygwin.
> 

Is it possible the file is being (re) uploaded (via cvs) during your 
cron job's download, thus truncating your download ?

Perhapse you should change to cvs:

  os.system( 'cvs ... ' )

FWIW, I tried downlading with IE using the link above I got a
truncated 6 and bit MB's (16:15 BST (UTC +0100)).

Rob.
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