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Download url to file with buffered read and progress display
#!/usr/bin/python
from urllib2 import urlopen
from datetime import datetime
from rfc822 import parsedate_tz
# Download url to file with buffered read and progress display
def download(url, file_name):
u = urlopen(url)
f = open(file_name, 'wb')
meta = u.info()
file_size = int(meta.getheaders("Content-Length")[0])
print "Downloading: %s Bytes: %s" % (file_name, file_size)
file_size_dl = 0
block_sz = 8192
while True:
buffer = u.read(block_sz)
if not buffer:
break
file_size_dl += len(buffer)
f.write(buffer)
status = r"%10d [%3.2f%%]" % (file_size_dl, file_size_dl * 100. / file_size)
status = status + chr(8) * (len(status) + 1)
print status,
f.close()
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