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Re: downloading a CSV

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On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 3:05 PM, noydb <jenn.duerr@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks!  That was pretty easy.
>
> import urllib.request
> url = '
> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_month.csv'
> urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, csv_file)
> csv_file = r"C:\Temp\earthquakeAll_last30days.csv"
> urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, csv_file)
>
> I do want to use python -- there's much more I need to do with the file
> after downloading.
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>

You might look at the Requests library.  Its third party, but easier to
understand and use than urllib

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downloading a CSV noydb <jenn.duerr@gmail.com> - 2016-02-19 10:46 -0800
  Re: downloading a CSV MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-02-19 19:24 +0000
  Re: downloading a CSV Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-02-19 19:43 +0000
  Re: downloading a CSV noydb <jenn.duerr@gmail.com> - 2016-02-19 12:05 -0800
    Re: downloading a CSV Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2016-02-19 16:03 -0500
  Re: downloading a CSV Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2016-02-19 18:47 -0600

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