requests response.iter_content() gets incomplete file ( 1024MB instead of 1.5GB )?

Question

hi i have been using this code snippet to download files from a website, so far files smaller than 1GB are all good. but i noticed a 1.5GB file is incomplete

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Answer 1

I think you forgot to close req.

from the requests author said, "If you find yourself partially reading request bodies (or not reading them at all) while using stream=True, you should make the request within a with statement to ensure it’s always closed:"

http://2.python-requests.org//en/latest/user/advanced/#body-content-workflow.