#!/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])
