I am aware of requests (or httpx, ...), but the idea is to do all that with the
standard library. If I have to install stuff, I could just install wget/curl
and be done.
Feature creep is an issue here, but just like http.server one could be really
strict about just
covering 90% of the use cases (download stuff and print or save it) and not
trying to handle
any corner cases.
The first code snippet was not supposed to be production-ready. Here's an
improved version
which only downloads 1MB a time and prints it. The only parameter could be the
URL:
from urllib.request import urlopen
from sys import stdout
with urlopen("https://coherentminds.de/";) as response:
while data := response.read(1024 * 1024):
stdout.buffer.write(data)
The user of this function could still decide to divert stdout into a file, so
both use cases
printing and saving would be covered.
IMHO, the benefit-cost ratio is quite good:
* can be a lifesaver (just like http.server) every once in a while in
particular in a container or testing context
* low implementation effort
* easy to test and to maintain
Tom
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