Simple file download.

JonB

You are better off using requests than urllib. It is easier to work with, and it handles decoding of the charset for you (otherwise, you need to check what encoding the website uses, and decode based in that). Also, you are better off using 'wb' to open your file, and write the bytes directly, rather than trying to mess with encodings at all.

Here is a 2 liner to save a file:

with open(destpath,'wb') as file:
		file.write(requests.get(url).content)

See https://gist.github.com/jsbain/fcb3f42932dde9b0ff6c122893d1b230 for how this is used in an app extension that can be run from safari, to save a file to pythonista.

By the way, to post code in the forums, please type three backticks before you paste, on a separate line, and theee backticks after:

```
your code here
```

Backticks on ios are a pain, you have to long press the single quote, and select the option on the left. I like to create a keyboard shortcut in settings, which replaces ,,, with ``` for this purpose.

NickAtNight

Backticks?

Ok, let's give it a try.

Here is a simple working version of your suggestion.

I like the 'wb' switch.

import requests

print()

destpath = 'ex24file.txt'
url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grrrr/py/741ba0500bc49e8f6268f02d23e461649e8d457b/scripts/buffer.py"

with open(destpath,'wb') as file:
	file.write(requests.get(url).content)

NickAtNight

Well that works pretty good @JonB.

I just learned how to transfer up a GIST.

First test:
https://gist.github.com/NickAtNight500

How do we download a ZIP file?

NickAtNight

Tagging this discussion for future reference. link text

TutorialDoctor

Found this bit of code on github inside of a game made with Pythonista.

urllib.request.urlretrieve('https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B3zm9_2zdxHnQUJweTVtMU1GdDQ', 'notsonice.m4a')

It downloads a file from their Google Drive account into the directory the script that runs this code is.

lukaskollmer

@TutorialDoctor Isn't that basically what I already proposed?

TutorialDoctor

Eeek. Yup.

NickAtNight

So what is the difference between request and urllib.request?

Same library, just different collections?

abcabc

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2018026/what-are-the-differences-between-the-urllib-urllib2-and-requests-module

lachlantula

@TutorialDoctor Hahaha, looks like you found my game I made as a joke between me and my friend:P