how to download internet files by python ?

[iMath]

在 2013年1月8日星期二UTC+8下午1时04分54秒，Roy Smith写道：
> In article <mailman.259.1357620254.2939.python-list at python.org>,
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>  Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
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> > On 07Jan2013 20:19, iMath <redstone-cold at 163.com> wrote:
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> > | for example ,if I want to download this file ,how to implement the download 
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> > | functionality by python ?
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> > | http://down.51voa.com/201208/se-ed-foreign-students-friends-16aug12.mp3
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> > | as for  download speed ,of course ,the fast ,the better ,so how to 
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> > | implement it ?
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> > | It would be better to show me an example :) thanks !!!
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> > Look at urllib2.
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> Even better, look at requests 
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> (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/).  There's nothing you can 
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> do with requests that you can't do with urllib2, but the interface is a 
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> whole lot easier to work with.

There is also a httplib2 module 
https://code.google.com/p/httplib2/

which one is more pythonic and powerful ?