how could i download a empty file from a website and see if the lines are the same as a diffrent file on my computer?
Dat One Lefty
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Here is how to download this page from python, in file/tmp/foo.htmlimport urllib urllib.urlretrieve("https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/500869/python-grabbing-website-data", "/tmp/foo.html")
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Gribouillis
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Hi
Here is how to download this page from python, in file /tmp/foo.html
import urllib
urllib.urlretrieve("https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/500869/python-grabbing-website-data", "/tmp/foo.html")
Taywin
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The question does not make sense... Why would one want to download an empty file in the first place? Then why would one want to compare an empty file with another empty file -- hint is that they are empty!
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