'''
    xam.common
    ----------

    Contains some helpful functions with no other home.

    :copyright: (c) 2012 <NAME>
    :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.

'''
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
import requests


class UnicodeBuilder(ET.XMLTreeBuilder):

    def _fixtext(self, text):
        '''Override the parent class which attempts to encode to ascii'''
        return text


def urlretrieve(url, filename):
    '''Downloads the resource found at the remote url to the provided
    filename if the url returns an OK status.'''
    print '* Downloading %s to %s' % (url, filename)
    req = requests.get(url)
    if req.status_code == requests.codes.ok:
        with open(filename, 'wb') as output:
            output.write(req.content)

'''
    xam.common
    ----------

    Contains some helpful functions with no other home.

    :copyright: (c) 2012 <NAME>
    :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.

'''
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
import requests


class UnicodeBuilder(ET.XMLTreeBuilder):

    def _fixtext(self, text):
        '''Override the parent class which attempts to encode to ascii'''
        return text


def urlretrieve(url, filename):
    '''Downloads the resource found at the remote url to the provided
    filename if the url returns an OK status.'''
    print '* Downloading %s to %s' % (url, filename)
    req = requests.get(url)
    if req.status_code == requests.codes.ok:
        with open(filename, 'wb') as output:
            output.write(req.content)

xam.common     ----------      Contains some helpful functions with no other home.      :copyright: (c) 2012 <NAME>     :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details. Override the parent class which attempts to encode to ascii Downloads the resource found at the remote url to the provided     filename if the url returns an OK status.