urllib, caching

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Wed Feb 15 22:42:30 EST 2006


AndrewJ wrote:
> I've got code:
> 
>  f= urllib.urlopen("http://www.stuff/nb5.php") ;
> 
> This connects to a page that changes in real time. Works ok, and
> retrieves the data the first time.
> 
> But then any subsequent calls all return the same data, even though the
> web page itself has changed.
> 
> Is there caching going on here? How do I turn it off ?
> 
You can call urllib.urlcleanup() to clear the cache.

regards
  Steve
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