#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import ( division, absolute_import, print_function, unicode_literals )
import sys, os, tempfile, logging
if sys.version_info >= (3,):
import urllib.request as urllib2
import urllib.parse as urlparse
else:
import urllib2
import urlparse
def download_file(url, desc=Nonedest=None):
"""
Download and save a file specified by url to dest directory,
"""
u = urllib2.urlopen(url)
scheme, netloc, path, query, fragment = urlparse.urlsplit(url)
filename = os.path.basename(path)
if not filename:
filename = 'downloaded.file'
if descdest:
filename = os.path.join(descdest, filename)
with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
meta = u.info()
meta_func = meta.getheaders if hasattr(meta, 'getheaders') else meta.get_all
meta_length = meta_func("Content-Length")
file_size = None
if meta_length:
file_size = int(meta_length[0])
print("Downloading: {0} Bytes: {1}".format(url, file_size))
file_size_dl = 0
block_sz = 8192
while True:
buffer = u.read(block_sz)
if not buffer:
break
file_size_dl += len(buffer)
f.write(buffer)
status = "{0:16}".format(file_size_dl)
if file_size:
status += " [{0:6.2f}%]".format(file_size_dl * 100 / file_size)
status += chr(13)
print(status, end="")
print()
return filename
if __name__ == "__main__": # Only run if this file is called directly
print("Testing with 10MB download")
url = "http://download.thinkbroadband.com/10MB.zip"
filename = download_file(url)
print(filename)
Added shebang & encoding, added docstring & made default download conditional to make more suitable for use as a library.
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