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  A tour de force. It reminds me of a project I once worked on that was written entirely in 2.4, and one of their vendors updated their API, which was only available in 2.7.
  I ended up using JSON to communicate between a 2.4 and a 2.7 process. Wanted to stick my finger down my throat afterwards. The whole system was a pile of kluges held together by klugey string. Yerch.
  They are the abominations that put food on our tables. A twitter friend related having to programmatically move the mouse to the location of a button and then click it. IDEK.
  "The Kludge that Fed Me" :-(
  You might be able to use Python's urllib to download the files. I have also used Selenium () to automate a browser and make it do what I want.
  @Mike, thanks. I tried that among other things. They yield a "operation not permitted" message or error or text value.
  For whatever reason, the site is locked down to force you to use a mouse and clicks and individually download each file. It's kind of a drag :-(
  This makes it sound like there should be absolute URLs returned:. And I found this useful link that might work for you:
  Mike, thanks again. I could be wrong, but I think they've got this site locked down to force the user to use IE9 and a mouse.
  I've tried IronPython with the Sharepoint.Client dll. The usual response to anything I try to do is along the lines of
  "AttributeError: attribute 'SPSite' of 'namespace#' object is read-only"
  I was working from this site
  trying to get started on using the SharePoint client object model.
  It could be I'm not understanding something or missing something. So far I've hit a lot of dead ends.
  Thanks for the input and for having a look at the blog.
  As it turns out, there is access to Explorer View; it's just in a different location in the newer version of SharePoint.
  It's not a Python solution, but I can map the SharePoint site as a network drive letter and copy the files with
  xcopy /*.msr . /z
  I learned a little messing with this (I hate GUI's :-( )
  Thanks a lot; a life saver for me; have tried autoit and could not download using it. Issue solved.