Trying to load file from a script

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I'm trying to load a file from my own server into a piece of code. I've done similar things several times elsewhere in the code, but always from external sites in the past.

The file is at http://mydomain.com/static/data/somefile.csv - this file works, and if I navigate to it in the browser, it downloads the file.

In my app I'm using master_data = open (r'http://mydomain.com/static/data/somefile.csv', 'r'), and getting:

Exception Type: IOError Exception Value:
[Errno 2] No such file or directory:

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You cannot open a URL with Python's open() function. When you attempt to do so, Python is trying to open a local file named "http://mydomain.com/static/data/somefile.csv", so of course that fails.

Instead, use urllib2.urlopen(), eg:

import urllib2
master_data = urllib2.urlopen(r'http://mydomain.com/static/data/somefile.csv')

Hope that helps!

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answered 24 Apr '14, 18:21

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