ftp and lowercase?

[J P]

Have you tried sendcmd ("ls") ? I think that would work for you.

"Stein Surland" <ssurland at online.no> wrote in message
news:39832544.2E05FCFB at online.no...
> I have made a small script using ftplib to retrieve a list from a ftp
> directory. It worked OK using ftp.retrlines('LIST', lines.append).
> However using it on another ftp host gives me this message:
>
>     ftp.retrlines('ls', lines.append)
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py", line 345, in retrlines
>     conn = self.transfercmd(cmd)
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py", line 285, in transfercmd
>     return self.ntransfercmd(cmd)[0]
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py", line 273, in ntransfercmd
>     resp = self.sendcmd(cmd)
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py", line 228, in sendcmd
>     return self.getresp()
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py", line 201, in getresp
>     raise error_perm, resp
> ftplib.error_perm: 500 'LS': command not understood.
>
> The host did not take the LIST command so I changed it to LS and ls. It
> seems that the ftplib sends the list command in uppercase. How to change
> this to lowercase? I have ftp'ed to the host and it does not recognize
> LIST or LS only ls.
>
> Stein
>
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