Python urllib2 resume download doesn't work when network reconnects

Question

I\'m using urllib2 to make a resuming downloader, roughly based on this method. I can end the program and re-start it, and it starts downloading where it left off, downloadi

Answer 1

I added self._outfile.close() with the self._netfile.close() in the IOError handler, that seems to have fixed it. I guess this error was caused by opening for appending again without closing it.