Accessing a URL file Remotely

[mcl]

On 29 Nov, 22:32, TheSeeker <duane.kauf... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 29, 3:13 pm, mcl <mcl.off... at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have been given a url ofCSVfile (http://hostname/dir/file.csv),
> > which when I put the full URL in a web browser shows the contents of
> > the file.
>
> > I want to be able to use theCSVmodule to read that file, which I
> > have successfully used with a localCSVfile.
>
> > Any examples anywhere would be appreciated.
>
> > My basic research suggests URLLIB, but I can not find a suitable
> > example.
>
> > I do not understand what additional information, needs to be given to
> > the remote site in order for it to expose the contents of the file as
> > though I was reading it locally.
>
> > Do I need to copy it to my local machine or can I read it directly
> > from the remote site.
>
> > As you can probably tell, I have never done anything like this, so any
> > help will be gratefully received.
>
> > Thanks
>
> > Richard
>
> -----untested------
>
> import urllib,csv
>
> fp_page = urllib.urlopen("http://URL_of_file")
> reader =csv.reader(fp_page)
> for row in reader:
>     print row
>
> Duane

Duane,

Brilliant - I had fears of much more complication.

Thank you very much

Richard