Instead of saving text files i need as html

Sion Arrowsmith siona at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Fri Jun 9 06:30:44 EDT 2006


Tim Chase  <tim at thechases.com> wrote:
>> [ ... ]
>>         urllib.urlretrieve(lines.strip('/n'), 'c:\\temp\\' \
>>         + outfilename.strip('\n')[7:] + '.html')
> [ ... ]  I'm not sure what the odd 
>slicing is for, but I'll presume the OP knows what they're doing.

It's taking the "http://" off the front of the URL.

>>> len("http://")
7

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