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  • HP
    #1

    urlretrieve a file whose name has spaces in it

    I am using urllib.urlretri eve() to download a file from a web site.
    THe trouble is that the file name has spaces in it,
    such as "string string1 foo.doc".

    The statement:
    urllib.urlretri eve("http://website.com/path/string string1 foo.doc",
    "local_file ");

    produces local_file which contains the following one line:
    <html><head><ti tle>Error</title></head><body>The parameter is
    incorrect. </body></html>

    What is the correct way of specifying the this file in urlretrieve() ?

    thanks
    HP
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    • Irmen de Jong
      #2
      Re: urlretrieve a file whose name has spaces in it

      HP wrote:[color=blue]
      > urllib.urlretri eve("http://website.com/path/string string1 foo.doc",
      > "local_file ");
      >[/color]

      Try

      urllib.urlretri eve(urllib.quot e("http://website.com/path/string string1 foo.doc"), "local_file ")

      instead.

      And what is the semicolon doing there? ;-)

      --Irmen

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        • Kevin Cazabon
          #3
          Re: urlretrieve a file whose name has spaces in it

          You can easily escape spaces with "%20"

          as in:


          urllib.urlretri eve("http://website.com/path/string string1
          foo.doc".replac e(" ", "%20"), "local_file ")



          [email protected] (HP) wrote in message news:<10caf2e2. 0307291439.33d9 [email protected] ogle.com>...[color=blue]
          > I am using urllib.urlretri eve() to download a file from a web site.
          > THe trouble is that the file name has spaces in it,
          > such as "string string1 foo.doc".
          >
          > The statement:
          > urllib.urlretri eve("http://website.com/path/string string1 foo.doc",
          > "local_file ");
          >
          > produces local_file which contains the following one line:
          > <html><head><ti tle>Error</title></head><body>The parameter is
          > incorrect. </body></html>
          >
          > What is the correct way of specifying the this file in urlretrieve() ?
          >
          > thanks
          > HP[/color]

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