winfreed.py: create the file right before the download starts

[winfreed.git] / winfreed.py

diff --git a/winfreed.py b/winfreed.py
index c49de16..0492028 100755 (executable)
--- a/winfreed.py
+++ b/winfreed.py
@@ -71,10 +71,13 @@ def download_file(src_url, dest_dir):
     try:
         response = urllib2.urlopen(src_url)
     except Exception, e:
+        print 'Downloading from', src_url, 'failed.',
         if hasattr(e, 'reason'):
-            print 'Downloading from', src_url, 'failed. Reason: ', e.reason
+            print 'Reason: ', e.reason
         elif hasattr(e, 'code'):
-            print 'Downloading from', src_url, 'failed. Error code: ', e.code
+            print 'Error code: ', e.code
+        else:
+            print e
         return
 
     # get the final URL after possible redirect have been followed
@@ -105,8 +108,6 @@ def download_file(src_url, dest_dir):
         sys.stderr.write("Warning: %s exists!\n" % destfile)
         return
 
-    outfile = open(destfile, mode='w')
-
     total_size = response.info().getheader('Content-Length').strip()
     total_size = int(total_size)
 
@@ -115,6 +116,8 @@ def download_file(src_url, dest_dir):
                ' ', ETA(), ' ', FileTransferSpeed()]
     pbar = ProgressBar(widgets=widgets, maxval=total_size).start()
 
+    outfile = open(destfile, mode='w')
+
     bytes_so_far = 0
     while 1:
         chunk = response.read(CHUNK_SIZE)