Re: [stdlib-sig] proposed removal: ftplib

On 20 Mar, 2008, at 5:29, Brett Cannon wrote:

There is a better implementation in Twisted. FTP is inherently unsafe. And the interface is pretty crappy.

I'm -1 on this. FTP is still used to access embedded devices and Twisted is overkill for small scripts. One usecase I use ftplib for is automaticly downloading configuration and error-logs from a number of devices that only offer FTP access to the raw data (and at best a crummy HTTP interface with a GUI). Ronald