I have always liked The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Let's download the book and save it locally:
url = 'http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661.txt.utf-8'file_name = 'sherlock.txt'
Let's actually download the file. You only need to do this once, but this download utility can be used whenever you are downloading other datasets, too:
import urllib.request# Download the file from `url` and save it locally under `file_name`:with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response: with open(file_name, 'wb') as out_file: data = response.read() # a `bytes` object out_file.write(data)
Moving on, let's check whether we got the correct file in place with shell syntax inside our Jupyter notebook. This ability to run ...
