Re: Need script to download file at known address

From: phansen (peter_at_engcorp.com)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:05:15 -0400

Jeff Shannon wrote:
> Radioactive Man wrote:
>> Are there any variants of the "open" commmand that
>> allow location (drive and directory) of the file to be specified as
>> well, for example, if I wanted to save the file as
>> "D:\binaries\trash.gif" instead of the default location?
>
> As a matter of fact, the standard open() will handle that just fine --
> it accepts a pathname, rather than just a filename, so you can feed it
> an absolute path like your example or a relative path ...

But note that the directories have to exist already. If they don't,
you need to use something like os.makedirs() to get 'em.

-Peter

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