save a text file from web python code example

Example 1: python download file from url

import requests


url = 'https://www.facebook.com/favicon.ico'
r = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)

open('facebook.ico', 'wb').write(r.content)

Example 2: save a text file from web python

import urllib2response = urllib2.urlopen('https://wordpress.org/plugins/about/readme.txt')data = response.read()print(data)