PyPdf/pdfminer library will be of help On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com>wrote:
> monkeys paw wrote: > >> I used the following code to download a PDF file, but the >> file was invalid after running the code, is there problem >> with the write operation? >> >> import urllib2 >> url = 'http://www.whirlpoolwaterheaters.com/downloads/6510413.pdf' >> a = open('adobe.pdf', 'w') >> > > Sure you don't need this to be 'wb' instead of 'w'? > > > for line in urllib2.urlopen(url): >> a.write(line) >> > > I also don't know if this "for line...a.write(line)" loop is doing newline > translation. If it's a binary file, you should use .read() (perhaps with a > modest-sized block-size, writing it in a loop if the file can end up being > large.) > > -tkc > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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