gistfile1.txt

def download_war(baseurl, login, password, war, version):
    """
    Download a war from Nexus and return it's path
    """
    try:        
        url = baseurl + "/" + war + "/" + version + "/" + war + "-" + version + ".war"
        result = "/tmp/ " + war + "-" + version + ".war"

        # Download file
        # stream=True, total_size and with open just so a progress bar can be displayed with tqdm
        r = requests.get(url, auth=(login,password), stream=True)
        total_size = int(r.headers.get('content-length', 0))
        with open(result, 'wb') as f:
            for data in tqdm(r.iter_content(1024*1024), total=total_size, unit='B', unit_scale=True):
                f.write(data)

        # Exception if return code above 400
        r.raise_for_status()

        logging.debug(r, sort_keys=True)
        return result

    except Exception as e:
        print("Exception while downloading '" + url + "' : " + str(e))
        exit(100)