Python USES wget to implement an example of a network file download function

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wget is a free tool for automatically downloading files from the Internet. It supports the HTTP, HTTPS and FTP protocols and can use HTTP proxies.

ubuntu installation wget

pip install wget

Download files from the network or local hard drive (and unzip)

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import wget, tarfile
import os
#  The network address 
DATA_URL = 'http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~ankush/data.tar.gz'
#  Local hard disk file 
# DATA_URL = '/home/xxx/book/data.tar.gz'
out_fname = 'abc.tar.gz'
wget.download(DATA_URL, out=out_fname)
#  Extract package 
tar = tarfile.open(out_fname)
tar.extractall()
tar.close()
#  Delete downloaded files 
os.remove(out_fname)

Common parameters of wget:

- Continuation of c break point

Maximum number of connection attempts (--tries=NUMBER)

-T SECONDS response timeout seconds (--timeout=SECONDS)

Save the file in the directory (-- ES40en-ES41en =PREFIX)

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