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made this shorter and RAII-compatible. Also, added explicit language specifier and tweaked descriptive text

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edited Mar 10, 2016 at 17:14

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import urllib2
mp3file = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.example.com/songs/mp3.mp3")
with open('test.mp3','wb') as output:
  output.write(mp3file.read())

the 'wb'The wb in open('test.mp3','wb')open('test.mp3','wb') opens a file (and erases any existing) file, binaraly,) in binary mode so you can save data with it, instead of just text.

import urllib2
mp3file = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.example.com/songs/mp3.mp3")
with open('test.mp3','wb') as output:
  output.write(mp3file.read())

the 'wb' in open('test.mp3','wb') opens a (and erases any existing) file, binaraly, so you can save data with it, instead of just text.

import urllib2
mp3file = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.example.com/songs/mp3.mp3")
with open('test.mp3','wb') as output:
  output.write(mp3file.read())

The wb in open('test.mp3','wb') opens a file (and erases any existing file) in binary mode so you can save data with it instead of just text.

made this shorter and RAII-compatible. Also, added explicit language specifier

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edit approved Mar 10, 2016 at 17:14

Parthian Shot

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import urllib2
mp3file = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.example.com/songs/mp3.mp3")
output = open('test.mp3','wb')
output.write(mp3file.read())
output.close()

import urllib2
mp3file = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.example.com/songs/mp3.mp3")
with open('test.mp3','wb') as output:
  output.write(mp3file.read())

the 'wb' in open('test.mp3','wb') opens a (and erases any existing) file, binaraly, so you can save data with it, instead of just text.

import urllib2
mp3file = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.example.com/songs/mp3.mp3")
output = open('test.mp3','wb')
output.write(mp3file.read())
output.close()

the 'wb' in open('test.mp3','wb') opens a (and erases any existing) file, binaraly, so you can save data with it, instead of just text.

import urllib2
mp3file = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.example.com/songs/mp3.mp3")
with open('test.mp3','wb') as output:
  output.write(mp3file.read())

the 'wb' in open('test.mp3','wb') opens a (and erases any existing) file, binaraly, so you can save data with it, instead of just text.

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created Aug 22, 2008 at 15:58

Grant

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import urllib2
mp3file = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.example.com/songs/mp3.mp3")
output = open('test.mp3','wb')
output.write(mp3file.read())
output.close()

the 'wb' in open('test.mp3','wb') opens a (and erases any existing) file, binaraly, so you can save data with it, instead of just text.

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