[Tutor] Help: wget-- how does it work?

[Terry Carroll]

On Fri, 27 May 2005, Aaron Elbaz wrote:

> First, I found the progress bar class from aspn
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/168639
> 
> This could be used to simulate wgets progress bar. What I'm trying to
> figure out now is how one would stat a file as it was being downloaded
> so that I can feed information to the progress bar, and what the most
> optimal way to do this is?

I use this for an app I have that reads the 27-meg Unihan.txt file; but I 
think I cheat and hardcode the 27-meg no.