[Tutor] urllib.urlretrieve ?

[Joel Goldstick]

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Matthew Ngaha <chigga101 at gmail.com> wrote:

> the whole program depends on the urlretrieve 3rd argument, the
> function to be called.. is there no options to include a callback?
>
> def _download(self):
>
>         def reporthook(pos, block, total):
>             if self.size != total:
>                 self._size = total
>                 self.on_size.emit()
>             self.progress = float(pos*block)/float(total)
>
>         urllib.urlretrieve(self._url, self._filename, reporthook)
> ##3rd arg calls inner function
>         self.running = False
>

You might want to look at requests module:
http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/
Many people think it is easier to use than the native python support.


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