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Oddly enough, this worked for me on Windows when the urllib2 method wouldn't. The urllib2 method worked on Mac, though.
– InFreefall
Commented May 15, 2011 at 21:49
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Bug: file_size_dl += block_sz should be += len(buffer) since the last read is often not a full block_sz. Also on windows you need to open the output file as "wb" if it isn't a text file.
– Eggplant Jeff
Commented May 25, 2011 at 17:53
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Me too urllib and urllib2 didn't work but urlretrieve worked well, was getting frustrated - thanks :)
– funk-shun
Commented Jul 12, 2011 at 6:08
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Wrap the whole thing (except the definition of file_name) with if not os.path.isfile(file_name): to avoid overwriting podcasts! useful when running it as a cronjob with the urls found in a .html file
– Sriram Murali
Commented May 1, 2012 at 20:15
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According to the documentation, urllib.request.urlretrieve is a "legacy interface" and "might become deprecated in the future. docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html#legacy-interface
– Louis Yang
Commented Dec 24, 2020 at 22:21

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