Downloading a picture via urllib and python

Question

So I\'m trying to make a Python script that downloads webcomics and puts them in a folder on my desktop. I\'ve found a few similar programs on here that do something simila

Answer 1

Aside from suggesting you read the docs for retrieve() carefully (http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html#urllib.URLopener.retrieve), I would suggest actually calling read() on the content of the response, and then saving it into a file of your choosing rather than leaving it in the temporary file that retrieve creates.