How to batch download files from web page?

[Paul Rubin]

sj <nothin at forgetit.com> writes:
> I wish to download hundreds of files from the University of Iowa sound
> archive.  Doing it manually would be a daunting task especially since the
> files are each a few mega bytes long.  Is there a standard way of using
> Python for such a task?  I have a fair amount of programming experiance but
> very little of it relates to networks.  

You could use the urllib module, or maybe you could use wget:

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html