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Three Ways to Download a File with Python

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Mike Driscoll
Oct 09, 2023
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Downloading files from the internet is something that almost every programmer will have to do at some point. Python provides several ways to do just that in its standard library.

Probably the most popular way to download a file is over HTTP using the urllib. Python also comes with ftplib for FTP downloads.

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