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Right now it looks like it should be a comment on the question. Thanks, I had used this previously with the same problem, but having it confirmed as correct is useful. I think I'm having issues with overwriting existing files rather than the downloading part.
I tested it overwriting an existing file and it works fine. You can try to download the file in a temporal folder. It also Python 2.
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Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Specifically, the urlretrieve method of this module is what we'll use for actually retrieving the file. To use this method, you need to pass two arguments to the urlretrieve method: The first argument is the URL of the resource that you want to retrieve, and the second argument is the local file path where you want to store the downloaded file.
In the above code, we first import the urllib. Next we create a variable url that contains the path of the file to be downloaded. Keep in mind that you can pass any filename as the second parameter and that is the location and name that your file will have, assuming you have the correct permissions.
Run the above script and go to your "Downloads" directory. You should see your downloaded file named "cat. Note : This urllib. Because of this, I wouldn't recommend using it in favor of one of the methods below. We've included it here due to is popularity in Python 2.
Another way to download files in Python is via the urllib2 module. The urlopen method of the urllib2 module returns an object that contains file data. To read the contents of. Note that in Python 3, urllib2 was merged in to urllib as urllib. Therefore, this script works only in Python 2.
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