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[James Stroud]

Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> At Thursday 21/9/2006 02:26, alex23 wrote:
> 
>> page = urllib.urlopen('http://some.address')
> 
> add .read() at the end
> 
>> open('saved_page.txt','w').write(page).close()
> 
> write() does not return the file object, so this won't work; you have to 
> bind the file to a temporary variable to be able to close it.

Strictly speaking, "have to" is not perfectly correct. The ".close()" 
part can simply be eliminated as the file should close via garbage 
collection once leaving the local namespace.

James