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diff --git a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst index 87f42ba..955e455 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst @@ -56,6 +56,13 @@ The simplest way to use urllib.request is as follows:: response = urllib.request.urlopen('http://python.org/') html = response.read() +If you wish to retrieve a resource via URL and store it in a temporary location, +you can do so via the :func:`urlretrieve` function:: + + import urllib.request + local_filename, headers = urllib.request.urlretrieve('http://python.org/') + html = open(local_filename) + Many uses of urllib will be that simple (note that instead of an 'http:' URL we could have used an URL starting with 'ftp:', 'file:', etc.). However, it's the purpose of this tutorial to explain the more complicated cases, concentrating on |