# import necessary routines
import numpy as np
from datetime import datetime
from datetime import timedelta
import os
import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")
import subprocess


# using lftp
#subprocess.call("lftp -c 'mget http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/text/ace-epam.txt ./'", shell=True, stdout=open(os.devnull, 'wb'), stderr=open(os.devnull, 'wb'))

# or alternatively use urllib2

import urllib2
response = urllib2.urlopen("http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/text/ace-epam.txt")
html = response.read()


"""f=open("test","w")
f.write(html)
f.close()
for line in html.split("\n"):
  print line.split()"""