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On Sun, May 1, 2016, at 09:51 PM, DFS wrote:
> On 5/2/2016 12:31 AM, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> > On Sun, May 1, 2016, at 08:39 PM, DFS wrote:
> >> To save a webpage to a file:
> >> -------------------------------------
> >> 1. import urllib
> >> 2. urllib.urlretrieve("http://econpy.pythonanywhere.com
> >>      /ex/001.html","D:\file.html")
> >> -------------------------------------
> >
> > Note, for paths on windows you really want to use a rawstring. Ie,
> > r"D:\file.html".
> > 
> Thanks.
> 
> I actually use "D:\\file.html" in my code.

Or you can do that. But the whole point of raw strings is not having to
escape slashes :) 

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Stephen Hansen
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