import sys
try:
    if sys.version_info >= (3,):
        import urllib.request
        response = urllib.request.urlopen('http://weechat.org/files/plugins.xml.gz')
    else:
        import urllib2
        response = urllib2.urlopen(urllib2.Request('http://weechat.org/files/plugins.xml.gz'))
    f = open('/tmp/plugins.xml.gz', 'wb')
    f.write(response.read())
    response.close()
    f.close()
except Exception as e:
    print('error:' + str(e))