Save data to a file thru a http connection

[John Machin]

On 1/06/2006 11:52 AM, yinglcs at gmail.com wrote:
> Scott,
> 
> Can you please tell me which chapter of the tutorial that you are
> referring to http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html?
> 
> The only chapter that I find about http is chapter 10.7, but it does
> not have the example that you are referring to


Break the problem up into two parts:

(1) Get some data.

You've achieved that, using HTTP.

(2) Save some data to a file.

Doesn't matter *how* you got the data. You need to know how to open a 
file for writing and how to write to it and how to close it when you've 
finished. Look for the section in the tutorial about *files*.

Better still, read *all* the sections in the tutorial :-)


> 
> Scott David Daniels wrote:
>> yinglcs at gmail.com wrote:
>>> I am new to python. I read an example here about how to fetch data thru
>>> a HTTP connection:
>>> http://diveintopython.org/http_web_services/review.html,
>>>
>>> My question is how can i save the data to a file after reading it from
>>> a http connection.
>> Do the tutorial and this and many other things will become clear.
>>
>> Instead of just "print sometext", do something like:
>>      ...
>>      f = open('filename', 'w')
>>      ...
>>      print >>f, sometext
>>      ... (possibly more prints like the above).
>>      f.close()
>>
>> --Scott David Daniels
>> scott.daniels at acm.org
>