[SOLVED] Displaying download progress in Python

[Ayuthia]

Is there a way to display the progress of wget in Python? I am calling wget via commands.getoutput, but the command does not display the progress until the command is complete. Since some of the programs might take a little time to download, I would like to be able to show the progress of the download so that the user does not think that the program is in an endless loop.

[Ayuthia]

It looks like the subprocess.call (cmd, shell=True) will work for me.

[Acglaphotis]

How would you call it?

[Ayuthia]

I would have a function that will download a file. For example:


import subproces

def download_file():
successful_download=subprocess.call('wget -c http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.47.tar.gz')
return successful_download

So when download_file() gets called, it will do the wget command and display the information that wget is sending.

Hope that makes sense.

[Ayuthia]

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