gistfile1.py

def grabFile(url, dest):
	"""grabFile(fileUrl, saveLocation)
	
	By James Finstrom
	Grabs file and saves to specified location
	"""
	
	#file = get_threeohtwo(url)
	request = urllib2.Request(file)
	filename = url.split('/')[-1].split('#')[0].split('?')[0]
	request.add_header('User-agent', 'Rhino Python Utility Version:' + script_version)
	try:
		u = urllib2.urlopen(request)
		localFile = open(dest+filename, 'w')
		localFile.write(u.read())
		localFile.close()
		return dest+filename
	except URLError, e:
		print '%s, %s' % (e.reason, e.code)
		return False
	except IOError:
		print "ERROR writing output... do you have permission to write there?"
		return False