corrupt download with urllib2

[Ulli Horlacher]

Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:


> > It works with Linux, but not with Windows 7, where the downloaded 7za.exe
> > is corrupt: it has the wrong size, 589044 instead of 587776 Bytes.
> > 
> > Where is my error?
> 
> >     sz = path.join(fexhome,'7za.exe')
> >     szurl = "http://fex.belwue.de/download/7za.exe"
> > 
> >    try:
> >       szo = open(sz,'w')
> 
> Open the file in binary mode to avoid the translation of "\n" into "\r\n":
> 
>         szo = open(sz, 'wb')

Damn.. I should have known this!

Ok, now it works like on Linux. Windows is such a *BEEEP* *CENSORED*


> >     except (IOError,OSError) as e:
> >       die('cannot write %s - %s' % (sz,e.strerror))
> 
> Unrelated, but I recommend that you let the exceptions bubble up for easier 
> debugging.

die() is my debugging function :-)


> Python is not Perl ;)

*sigh* This is the problem ;-)
I am a Perl programmer for more than 25 years... 

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