Download a file[Python]

[DingleBerries]

I am looking for the simplest way to download a file from a web site. The user will tell the program where it is and then I need python to work its magic. Fewer lines of code the better. Thank in advance.

[ls]

import urllib2
url = raw_input("Url : ")                            
outputname = url.split('/')[-1]                    
outputname = open(outputname,'w')          
for line in urllib2.urlopen(url).readlines():    
    outputname.write(line)                     
outputname.close()                                    
print "Done"

With this code you can download from http and from ftp

you can find more info here: http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html

[sablefoxx]

damn 8 lines, impressive

[Zimmer]

sablefoxx how about three

import urllib

url=raw_input('URL: ')

urllib.retrieve(url, filename='C:\\Documents and Settings\\file_download')

[DingleBerries]

I found what i needed.. sort of

import urllib
urllib.urlretrieve('http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vnc-tight/tightvnc-1.3.10-setup.exe','tightvnc-1.3.10-setup.exe')

What I am trying to do is to have a server respond to a command like, download file.com/here.ext but im having trouble with if command == "download ":, it will not respond to it if there is more after download and * doesnt work.

This is what I am working with atm:

    elif command == download:
        download = "download " + *
        download = s.replace('download ','')
        urllib.urlretrieve(download,'whateve.pc')

EDIT GOT IT

    elif command.startswith("download")
    file = command.replace('download ','')
        urllib.urlretrieve(download,'file')