Hello Pythoneers :) I would like to announce ftputil.py, a module which provides a more friendly interface for FTP sessions than the ftplib module. The FTPHost objects generated from it allow many operations similar to those of os and os.path. Examples: # download some files from the login directory import ftputil host = ftputil.FTPHost('ftp.domain.com', 'user', 'secret') names = host.listdir(host.curdir) for name in names: if host.path.isreg(name): host.download(name, name, 'b') # remote, local, binary mode # make a new directory and copy a remote file into it host.mkdir('newdir') source = host.file('index.html', 'r') # file-like object target = host.file('newdir/index.html', 'w') # file-like object host.copyfileobj(source, target) # mimics shutil.copyfileobj source.close() target.close() Even host.path.walk works. :-) But slow. ;-) ftputil.py can be downloaded from http://www.ndh.net/home/sschwarzer/download/ftputil.py I would like to get your suggestions and comments. :-) Stefan P.S.: Thanks to Pedro Rodriguez for his helpful answer to my question in comp.lang.python :-)