fpassthru in python? - php

Question

I am trying to find a sample code for download a file in python. To be exact, I am trying to convert a php to python.
My php sameple code:
$http_request = "POST $path HTTP/1.0\r\n";
$http_request .= "Host: $host\r\n";
$http_request .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;\r\n";
$http_request .= "Content-Length: " . strlen($data) . "\r\n";
$http_request .= "User-Agent: reCAPTCHA/PHP\r\n";
$http_request .= "\r\n";
$http_request .= $data;
$response = '';
if( false == ( $fs = #fsockopen($host, $port, $errno, $errstr, 10) ) ) {
die ('Could not open socket');
}
fwrite($fs, $http_request);
$headerpassed = false;
while ($headerpassed == false) {
$line = fgets( $fs);
list($tag, $value) = explode(": ", $line, 2);
if (stristr($tag, 'Location')) {
$target_url = trim($value);
header("Location: http://127.0.0.1/umsp/plugins/".basename(__file__)."?".$url_data_string."\r\ n");
continue;
}
if (trim($line) == "") {
$headerpassed = true;
header('Content-Type: video/avi');
}
header($line);
}
set_time_limit(0);
fpassthru($fs);
fclose($fs);
I found python file download script using urllib, but all the examples I found actually save to physical file unlike php code above.
PS: someone please add 'fpassthru' for me. I don't have permission to add a new tag.

Answer 1

A translation of PHP's fpassthru to Python might be as simple as:
def fpassthru(fp):
""" Reads to EOF on the given file object from the current position
and writes the results to output. """
print fp.read()
The fp argument must be a "file object" returned by open (the standard method for opening files) or a similar stream factory method such as urllib2.urlopen in the case of downloading content from an URL.
For example, this will open an URL and print its contents:
from urllib2 import urlopen # (renamed to urllib.request in Python 3.0)
fp = urlopen('http://www.example.com')
fpassthru(fp)
fp.close()
Note that you can get the HTTP response headers with dict(fp.headers). (But this attribute is only available on file objects returned by urllib2.urlopen, not regular file objects.)