Simple download of a PDF file.

download.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
'''
Downloads a sample PDF file.
'''

import urllib2

def download(url):
    print 'Starting download of', url
    f = urllib2.urlopen(url)
    data = f.read()
    f.close()
    print 'Finished downloading!'
    return data
    
def main():
    # url to PDF
    url = 'http://files.swaroopch.com/python/byte_of_python.pdf'
    
    # prepare output and call download()
    f = open('byte_of_python.pdf', 'w')
    data = download(url)
    
    # write data and close
    f.write(data)
    f.close()
        
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()