Equivalent of 'wget' for python?

[hrishy]

Hi Saju

Thanks for helping the oop challenged

regards
Hrishy


--- On Thu, 11/12/08, saju.pillai at gmail.com <saju.pillai at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: saju.pillai at gmail.com <saju.pillai at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Equivalent of 'wget' for python?
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Thursday, 11 December, 2008, 10:41 AM
> On Dec 11, 3:36 pm, "saju.pil... at gmail.com"
> <saju.pil... at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Dec 11, 2:36 pm, hrishy
> <hris... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> >
> > > Please excuse my OOP but is my understanding
> correct
> >
> > >
> urllib.urlretrieve(url_of_zip_file,destination_on_local_filesystem)
> >
> > > is urllib --->Static Class on which the method
> urlretrieve method is invoked ?
> >
> > No urllib is a "method". Use type(obj) to
> find out what python thinks
> 
> typo c/method/module
> 
> > the "type" of that object is. Note that
> "object" here is not meant in
> > the same sense as the OOP definition.
> >
> >
> >
> > > In that case what does the python 3.0 version
> mean
> >
> > > import urllib.request
> > > urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, local_file_name)
> >
> > > urllib -->static class
> > > request -->method
> > > urlretrieve--> what is this then ?
> >
> > A 'function'. urllib.request.urlretrieve is
> the fully qualified name
> > of the function urlretrieve. In other words
> urlretrieve lives in the
> > urllib.request namespace.
> >
> > -srp
> >
> >
> >
> > > regards
> > > Hrishy
> >
> > > --- On Mon, 8/12/08, Jerry Hill
> <malaclyp... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > From: Jerry Hill
> <malaclyp... at gmail.com>
> > > > Subject: Re: Equivalent of 'wget'
> for python?
> > > > To: python-l... at python.org
> > > > Date: Monday, 8 December, 2008, 5:54 PM
> > > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:53 AM, r0g
> > > > <aioe.... at technicalbloke.com> wrote:
> > > > > urllib.urlretrieve(url_of_zip_file,
> > > > destination_on_local_filesystem).
> >
> > > > In python 3.0, that appears to be:
> >
> > > > import urllib.request
> > > > urllib.request.urlretrieve(url,
> local_file_name)
> >
> > > > --
> > > > Jerry
> > > > --
> > >
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> >
> >
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