[New-bugs-announce] [issue22576] ftplib documentation gives a wrong argument name for storbinary

[Derek Kurth]

New submission from Derek Kurth:

The Python 3 documentation for ftplib gives the storbinary method signature as:

FTP.storbinary(cmd, file, blocksize=8192, callback=None, rest=None)

However, the parameter named "file" is actually named "fp" in the code, so if you do something like this:

ftp.storbinary(cmd="RETR something.txt", file=f)

then you will get a TypeError: storbinary() got an unexpected keyword argument 'file'.  

I think the documentation should be updated to call that argument "fp" instead of "file."

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 228773
nosy: Derek.Kurth, docs at python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: ftplib documentation gives a wrong argument name for storbinary
versions: Python 3.3

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