hi while trying out urllib.urlopen ,I wrote this code to read a url and return the data length
import datetime,time,urllib def get_page_size(pageurlstr): h=urllib.urlopen(pageurlstr) data=h.read() return len(data) while True: print 'reading url www.google.com at',datetime.datetime.now().isoformat(' ') print 'size=%d'%get_page_size('http://www.google.com') time.sleep(5) I got this output reading url www.google.com at 2010-10-02 17:22:24.691654 size=9512 reading url www.google.com at 2010-10-02 17:22:30.681236 size=9530 reading url www.google.com at 2010-10-02 17:22:36.886369 size=9530 reading url www.google.com at 2010-10-02 17:22:42.315392 size=9512 reading url www.google.com at 2010-10-02 17:22:48.763693 size=9512 reading url www.google.com at 2010-10-02 17:22:54.711666 size=9548 reading url www.google.com at 2010-10-02 17:23:00.151843 size=9530 reading url www.google.com at 2010-10-02 17:23:05.844620 size=9548 Why is it that the sizes are different?what must I do to ensure that the whole page is read ? thanks jim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list