PyHTTPDown.py

import urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error
import os
TARGET_URL = 'http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.4/'
TARGET_FILE = 'Python-2.7.4.tgz'

class CustomURLOpener(urllib.request.FancyURLopener):
    def http_error_206(self, url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers, data=None):
        pass

def resume_download():
    file_exists = False
    CustomURLClass = CustomURLOpener()
    if os.path.exists(TARGET_FILE):
        out_file = open(TARGET_FILE, "ab")
        file_exists = os.path.getsize(TARGET_FILE)
        CustomURLClass.addheader("range", "bytes=%s-" % (file_exists))
    else:
        out_file = open(TARGET_FILE, "wb")

    web_page = CustomURLClass.open(TARGET_URL + TARGET_FILE)
    if int(web_page.headers['Content-Length']) == file_exists:
        loop = 0
        print("File already downloaded!")

    byte_count = 0
    while True:
        data = web_page.read(8192)
        if not data:
            break
        out_file.write(data)
        byte_count = byte_count + len(data)
    web_page.close()
    out_file.close()

    for k, v in list(web_page.headers.items()):
        print(k, "=", v)

    print("File copied", byte_count, "bytes from", web_page.url)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    resume_download()