import urllib, os if not os.path.isfile("o10k.ap"): urllib.urlretrieve("http://www.tbray.org/tmp/o10k.ap", "o10k.ap") if not os.path.isfile("o1000k.ap"): data = open("o10k.ap").read() file = open("o1000k.ap", "w") file.writelines(data for i in range(100)) file.close()