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Re: Urllib's urlopen and urlretrieve

From rh <richard_hubbe11@lavabit.com>
Subject Re: Urllib's urlopen and urlretrieve
Date 2013-02-21 09:47 -0800
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On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:56:15 -0500
Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
> On 02/21/2013 07:12 AM, 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.
> 

 
> To archive your website, use the rsync command.  No need to write any 
> code, as rsync will descend into all the directories as needed, and 
> it'll get the actual website data, not the stuff that the web server 
> feeds to the browsers.

How many websites let you suck down their content using rsync???
The request was for creating their own copy of a website.

> 
> If for some reason you don't have rsync, you could use scp.  But it 
> doesn't seem to be able to preserve attributes.  It's also not smart 
> enough to only copy stuff that's been changed, when you want to
> update incrementally.

Ditto of above.

And how does this help someone just learning the language?

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Urllib's urlopen and urlretrieve qoresucks@gmail.com - 2013-02-21 04:12 -0800
  Re: Urllib's urlopen and urlretrieve Michael Herman <hermanmu@gmail.com> - 2013-02-21 04:59 -0800
    Re: Urllib's urlopen and urlretrieve qoresucks@gmail.com - 2013-02-21 21:09 -0800
      Re: Urllib's urlopen and urlretrieve Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-22 12:05 -0500
      Re: Urllib's urlopen and urlretrieve MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-02-22 17:18 +0000
    Re: Urllib's urlopen and urlretrieve qoresucks@gmail.com - 2013-02-21 21:09 -0800
  Re: Urllib's urlopen and urlretrieve Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-21 10:56 -0500
  Re: Urllib's urlopen and urlretrieve rh <richard_hubbe11@lavabit.com> - 2013-02-21 09:47 -0800
  Re: Urllib's urlopen and urlretrieve rh <richard_hubbe11@lavabit.com> - 2013-02-21 09:55 -0800
  Re: Urllib's urlopen and urlretrieve Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-21 13:04 -0500
  Re: Urllib's urlopen and urlretrieve Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-21 13:53 -0500

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