[ python-Patches-1731720 ] urllib.urlretrieve/URLopener.retrieve - 'buff' argument

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Category: Library (Lib)
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Dariusz Suchojad (dsuch)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: urllib.urlretrieve/URLopener.retrieve - 'buff' argument

Initial Comment:
Hello,

attached is a tiny patch which adds to urllib.urlretrieve and urllib.URLopener.retrieve
an optional 'buff' argument, which should be a file-like object 
(e.g. a StringIO instance). I don't have any performance issues with creating
temporary files (right now, anyway..) but it would be nice if I could pass my 
own objects for those methods to write to.

Optionally, it could also raise an exception (ValueError?) if neither 'filename'
nor 'buff' were given on input.

Diffed against today's trunk.

What do you think? Make sense?

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