Oliver Maunder wrote: > Hi all > > I'm pretty new to Python - I've worked through Dive Into Python, but not > done a lot else. One thing I have realised is that pretty much whatever > you want to do in Python, someone else has already done it and stuck it > in a library. My question is, how do you find these libraries.
I usually google for 'python' plus some keywords describing the problem. Searching comp.lang.python also works. And feel free to ask here or on c.l.python. > Here's an example - I want to write a program that downloads large files > from a website and stores them in a specified directory - preferably > with some kind of progress indicator. I'm pretty sure I can do this with > urllib, sgmllib (or just regular expressions to extract the links), > basic python file handling, and maybe some threading so I can download > more than one file at a time. Should be straightforward, but I don't > want to do it only to find there's a module with a > get_file_from_web(url, destination, progress_callback) function in it. That is spelled urllib.urlretrieve(url, destination, progress_callback) :-) Also Naja http://www.keyphrene.com/products/naja/ Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
