On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:21 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then perhaps it's a problem with my os. > [TERMINAL SESSION] > [18:16:33 Mon Nov 03] python > Python 2.6 (trunk:66714:66715M, Oct 1 2008, 18:36:04) > [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)] on darwin > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> import urllib >>>> url = 'http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en'
That's not the URL of an image file. Maybe you're looking for url = 'http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif' >>>> filename = 'logo.gif' >>>> image = urllib.URLopener() >>>> image.retrieve(url, filename) > ('logo.gif', <httplib.HTTPMessage instance at 0x5196e8>) > [/TERMINAL SESSION] > And here's the error message I get when I try to open it: "File Error: > Couldn't open the file. It may be corrupt or a file format that > Preview doesn't recognize.". > I have had a similar result trying to open it with other programs. That's because you downloaded some HTML and saved it in a file named logo.gif. That's unlikely to work in any image viewing program. Try opening the file you downloaded in a text editor and you'll see. -- Jerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list