I have come up with an idea of an app that I would like to write using python but I need some guidance. I would like to write an app for Linux/Unix that fetches a gzipped or bzipped file from a remote server by http or ftp. The file will be downloaded to a temporary directory, unzipped and its contents copied to specific directory. If the process has gone well, the files in the temporary directory are cleaned up. To do this, I guess I would have to mingle python with some UNIX commands. How do I intermingle python and unix commands? I have read most of Michael Dawsons book but unfortunately it doesn't have this kind of stuff. I have just bought Magnus Lie Hetland's book and just started going through it. Any other recommendations will be appreciated. Thanks.
Will
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