[Tutor] Downloading Files from the net

[Timo]

Kent Johnson schreef:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Timo <timovwb at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> What is the best/correct way to download files from a webpage?
>>
>> www.example.com/example.mp3 for instance.
>>
>> I know how to open the site (with urllib), but have no idea how to write the
>> file to the harddisk.
>>     
>
> urllib.urlretrieve() will do it if you don't need anything fancy like
> authentication.
>
> Kent
>   
Ok thanks, this works! And this would be the best way to do it? Also 
some larger, around 100-200mb, files?

Cheers