Python download a file

Question

I\'m unsure how to do this. One way is:

import urllib.request;
urllib.request.urlretrieve(\'www.example.com/file.tar\', \'file.tar\')

Another w

Answer 1

As @jdi said, you may use the requests library. This is also mentioned on https://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib2.html. You will need to pip the library, e.g.

pip install requests

My code looks like this:

import requests

def download_file(url):
    file = requests.get(url)
    return file.text

It can't be easier.