另一种方法是调用外部进程，如curl.exe。Curl在默认情况下显示进度条、平均下载速度、剩余时间等，所有这些都整齐地格式化在一个表格中。 将curl.exe放在与脚本相同的目录中

from subprocess import call
url = ""
call(["curl", {url}, '--output', "song.mp3"])

注意:不能使用curl指定输出路径，所以使用os。重命名之后

我同意Corey的观点，urllib2比urllib更完整，如果你想做更复杂的事情，应该使用urllib2模块，但为了让答案更完整，如果你只想要基本的东西，urllib是一个更简单的模块:

import urllib
response = urllib.urlopen('http://www.example.com/sound.mp3')
mp3 = response.read()

会很好。或者，如果你不想处理"response"对象，你可以直接调用read():

import urllib
mp3 = urllib.urlopen('http://www.example.com/sound.mp3').read()

为了这个目的，用纯Python编写了wget库。从2.0版开始，它就为urlretrieve注入了这些特性。

import urllib2
mp3file = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.example.com/songs/mp3.mp3")
with open('test.mp3','wb') as output:
  output.write(mp3file.read())

open('test.mp3'，'wb')中的wb以二进制模式打开文件(并擦除任何现有文件)，以便您可以使用它保存数据而不仅仅是文本。

源代码可以是:

import urllib
sock = urllib.urlopen("http://diveintopython.org/")
htmlSource = sock.read()                            
sock.close()                                        
print htmlSource  

Python 2/3的PabloG代码的改进版本:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import ( division, absolute_import, print_function, unicode_literals )

import sys, os, tempfile, logging

if sys.version_info >= (3,):
    import urllib.request as urllib2
    import urllib.parse as urlparse
else:
    import urllib2
    import urlparse

def download_file(url, dest=None):
    """ 
    Download and save a file specified by url to dest directory,
    """
    u = urllib2.urlopen(url)

    scheme, netloc, path, query, fragment = urlparse.urlsplit(url)
    filename = os.path.basename(path)
    if not filename:
        filename = 'downloaded.file'
    if dest:
        filename = os.path.join(dest, filename)

    with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
        meta = u.info()
        meta_func = meta.getheaders if hasattr(meta, 'getheaders') else meta.get_all
        meta_length = meta_func("Content-Length")
        file_size = None
        if meta_length:
            file_size = int(meta_length[0])
        print("Downloading: {0} Bytes: {1}".format(url, file_size))

        file_size_dl = 0
        block_sz = 8192
        while True:
            buffer = u.read(block_sz)
            if not buffer:
                break

            file_size_dl += len(buffer)
            f.write(buffer)

            status = "{0:16}".format(file_size_dl)
            if file_size:
                status += "   [{0:6.2f}%]".format(file_size_dl * 100 / file_size)
            status += chr(13)
            print(status, end="")
        print()

    return filename

if __name__ == "__main__":  # Only run if this file is called directly
    print("Testing with 10MB download")
    url = "http://download.thinkbroadband.com/10MB.zip"
    filename = download_file(url)
    print(filename)