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On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 04:12:52 -0800 (PST)
qoresucks@gmail.com wrote:

> I only just started Python and given that I know nothing about
> network programming or internet programming of any kind really, I
> thought it would be interesting to try write something that could
> create an archive of a website for myself. With this I started trying
> to use the urllib library, however I am having a problem
> understanding why certain things wont work with the
> urllib.urlretrieve and urllib.urlopen then reading.
> 
> Why is it that when using urllib.urlopen then reading or
> urllib.urlretrieve, does it only give me parts of the sites, loosing
> the formatting, images, etc...? How can I get around this?

urllib2 is the standard library in 2.7.3 to use, in 3.3 it is urllib
straight from the doc page

import urllib2
f = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.python.org/')
print f.read(100)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<?xml-stylesheet href="./css/ht2html

And so your journey begins.  With recursing into links, etc., etc.
> 
> Lastly, while its a bit off topic, I lack a good understanding of
> network programming as a whole. From making programs communicate or
> to simply extract data from URL's, I don't know where to even begin,
> which has lead me to learning python to better understand it
> hopefully then carry it over to other languages I know. Can anyone
> give me some advice on where to begin learning this information? Even
> if its in another language.

Also since you're new you may want to work with python3 but not
a requirement.

There are lots of free books online, search this list for links.
(you can search this list at gmane and probably elsewhere)