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January 23, 2013 18:30
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Open a local file or, if it doesn't exist, grab data from a url, cache it as a local file, and then open that file
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| data_url = "https://raw.github.com/pydata/pydata-book/master/ch02/usagov_bitly_data2012-03-16-1331923249.txt" | |
| data_path = "usagov_bitly_data2012-03-16-1331923249.txt" | |
| try: | |
| data = open(data_path) | |
| except IOError: | |
| request = urllib2.Request(data_url) | |
| data = urllib2.urlopen(request).read() | |
| with open(data_path, "w+") as data_file: | |
| data_file.write(data) | |
| data = open(data_path) |
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