Saurabh <phoneth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This isn't exactly how things work. The server *sends* you bytes. It can > > send you a lot at once. To some extent you can control how much it sends > > before it waits for you to catch up, but you don't have anywhere near > > byte-level control (you might have something like 32kb or 64kb level > > control). > > What abt in Python3 ? > It seems to have some header like the one below : b'b495 - binary mode > with 46229 bytes ? Or is it something else ? > > >>> import urllib.request > >>> url = "http://feeds2.feedburner.com/jquery/"; > >>> handler = urllib.request.urlopen(url) > >>> data = handler.read(1000) > >>> print("""Content :\n%s \n%s \n%s""" % ('=' * 100, data, '=' * 100)) > Content : > ==================================================================================================== > b'b495\r\n<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\r\n<?xml-stylesheet
That "b'..." is the string representation of the bytes object returned by urllib.request. Remember that in python3 bytes and strings are two very different types. You get bytes from urllib.request because urllib can't know what encoding the bytes are in. You have to decide how to decode them in order to convert it into a unicode string object. -- R. David Murray http://www.bitdance.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
