[Tutor] downloading from a list (original) (raw)

orbitz orbitz at ezabel.com
Mon Jul 5 18:05:26 CEST 2004

Why don't you just use the incredibly clever urllib module that you are already using?

By the way you probably should be usign urllib2

python at kc.rr.com wrote:

Hi, all. Still a Python newbie and messing around with urllib at the moment. Here's the particulars...

I'm attempting to come up with a script which will download the mp3's listed in a .m3u (playlist) file[1]. The heavy lifting is already done and the script, as it stands looks like so: import os, urllib # ask for a url here... print "enter the URL you want to download something from:" # get the url and assign to 'url' variable url = rawinput() # declare the app to download with downloader = '/sw/bin/wget ' # parse each line from the .m3u file for line in urllib.urlopen(url).readlines(): # tell the system to use wget to download each item in the list os.system (downloader + line) # be polite like mom said print "All done. Enjoy!" I was wondering, however, if there was any way for Python to just do all the magic itself without relying on an outside application (like wget), sorta like: import os, urllib print "enter the URL you want to download something from:" url = rawinput() for line in urllib.urlopen(url).readlines(): # something incredibly clever right about here! print "All done. Enjoy!" I didn't see anything, but it's getting rather late (0500 CST) and I'm feeling sleepy. Any hints on how to download those items in a list without relying on an external application? Many thanks for a hint or two! tom [1] Lots of musicians encourage downloading their tracks, just automating it a bit for personal use and to stretch my python wings tad. Check out magnatune.com for all sorts of musical goodness. Weinberg's Law: "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization"

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