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Python

Posted by Iskander Ismagilov
Iskander Ismagilov
13,298 Points

Program that creates files in py format.

Hi everybody!

I am taking python course on coursera and sometimes I get some url links with python files. So I wanna create some programm which retrieves files from some web sites, creates python file and embeds all the retrieved data to the file. 

import socket

url_input = input("Input a url: ")
mysock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
mysock.connect(('www.pythonlearn.com', 80))
mysock.send('GET {} HTTP/1.0\n\n'.format(url_link).encode())

while True:
    retrieved_data = mysock.recv(512)
    if (len(retrieved_data) < 1):
        break

mysock.close()

So, is there any way to create python files automatically and embed all the retrieved data to it?

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,468 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,468 Points

A Python file is simply a regular text file named with a .py extension. Some also place a shebang as the first line in the file, such as:

#!/bin/python