Should have tried harder myself - this works, but is there a better
way of doing it?

  filename, headers = urllib.urlretrieve(link, path.join(os.getcwd(),
"applications", request.application, "uploads", "foo.zip"))



On Jun 18, 1:56 pm, scausten <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to download (using urllib.urlretrieve) a remote file into
> my application. It's a zip file containing an IP-to-country lookup
> table. I want to download the zip to the application's file system
> (probably 'uploads'), unzip it, process the csv and then import the
> sanitised data into my ip-to-country database (using
> import_from_csv_file).
>
> How should I specify/access locations in the filesystem?

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