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

Same library, just different collections?

Wow @TutorialDoctor. Just down loaded and ran the Web Browser tutorial. Very Nice.

Tagging this discussion for future reference. link text

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?

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)

Well, not working on github.com

Getting coding error

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/78B1F70D-7DE8-4840-87C8-F5C1D01E9EF5/Pythonista3/Documents/LPTHW/FileDownload.py", line 49, in <module>
fout.write(myfile)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xb7' in position 1367: ordinal not in range(128)

Well, that works modestly well. It downloaded both sample files for this Google code jam problem.

link text

Revised version.

Makes a Downliad file in Documents.
Puts download file there

import console
import dialogs
import appex
import os.path
import urllib.request, urllib

#Make a downloads directory
os.chdir(os.path.expanduser('~'))
os.chdir(os.path.join(os.getcwd(),'Documents'))

test = os.path.isdir('Downloads')
print(test)

if test == False:
print('Downloads created')
os.makedirs('Downloads')
else:
print('Downloads exists')

print('Change dir to Downloads')

os.chdir(os.path.join(os.getcwd(),'Downloads'))

#Test if running as extenstion
test = appex.is_running_extension()

if test == True:
filein = appex.get_url()
else:
myrun = dialogs.alert('Manual entry?', '','Enter manual URL',"Dummy")

if myrun == 1:
filein = input("Enter the URL address of file to get:")

else:
filein = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grrrr/py/741ba0500bc49e8f6268f02d23e461649e8d457b/scripts/buffer.py"

fileparse = urllib.parse.urlparse(filein)
filepath,filename = os.path.split(fileparse.path)

fin = urllib.request.urlopen(filein)

fout = open(filename,'w')

fout.truncate()

bytemyfile = fin.read()
myfile = bytemyfile.decode("utf-8")
fout.write(myfile)
print (myfile)

fin.close()
fout.close()

Latest version,

• Uses APPEX.
  -- If running as a script, gets the file name from APPEX.
  -- So navigate to file and invoke script.
  -- No checking for the appropriate type of file.

• If not run as a script
  -- Allow manual entry of entire file path.
  -- Alterbative is to use the dummy test url

• I suppose I should make a 'download' directory and put the files in there, just below the root.

import console
import dialogs
import appex
import os.path
import urllib.request, urllib

test = appex.is_running_extension()

if test == True:
filein = appex.get_url()
else:
myrun = dialogs.alert('Manual entry?', '','Enter manual URL',"Dummy")
if myrun == 1:
filein = input("Enter the URL address of file to get:")

else:
    filein = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grrrr/py/741ba0500bc49e8f6268f02d23e461649e8d457b/scripts/buffer.py"

fileparse = urllib.parse.urlparse(filein)
filepath,filename = os.path.split(fileparse.path)

fin = urllib.request.urlopen(filein)

fout = open(filename,'w')

fout.truncate()

bytemyfile = fin.read()
myfile = bytemyfile.decode("utf-8")
fout.write(myfile)
print (myfile)

fin.close()
fout.close()

Ok, I will have to try that. @lukaskollmer

How about this:
If I navigate to the file in Safari.
I can run a script.
Using APPEX will give me the URL

import appex

r = appex.get_url()

print(r)

Now I just need to put that url into the command.