using python in www site

[Bob Horvath]

Cees de Groot wrote:

> Travis C. Porco <porco at stat.Berkeley.EDU> said:
> >Is there any ISP, either national (USA) or in the San Francisco Bay
> >Area that is Python-friendly?  All due respect to the $perl afficionados,
> >but I $@'int interested in switching.
> >
> My Webhost, www.11net.com, is in San Jose and runs on RedHat Linux with
> Python installed. I've added Bobo pieces to that (POS, ZPublisher and DTML)
> and am quite happy with the result (although BoboPOS isn't exactly meant
> for cgi scripts - without precautions, your account quota will quickly
> fill with BoboPOS timetravel informatino).
>
> Talking about Python & Webhosts: is there an equivalent of "wwwsync" in
> Python? If you don't know wwwsync: it's a Perl script that fetches a
> recursive directly listing via FTP, compares it with a local copy of
> the website, and uploads everything that has changed.

I don't know about a python version, but have you looked at rsync for doing
this?  It is pretty handy as it only will download or upload things the bits
that have changed.