#!/usr/bin/env python """File downloading from the web. """ def download(url): """Copy the contents of a file from a given URL to a local file. """ import urllib webFile = urllib.urlopen(url) localFile = open(url.split('/')[-1], 'w') localFile.write(webFile.read()) webFile.close() localFile.close() if __name__ == '__main__': import sys if len(sys.argv) == 2: try: download(sys.argv[1]) except IOError: print 'Filename not found.' else: import os print 'usage: %s http://server.com/path/to/filename' % os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])