ftplib possible bug? Please help.
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Mon Jun 18 15:26:50 EDT 2001
"Marshall" wrote:
> I am using Python 2.0 on NT 4.0
> When I ftp a file from one NT server to another, using ftplib, it
> changes the end of the line from CRLF to LF. It does this EVEN when
> the transfer is Binary.
> Is this a known problem?
you need to open the local file in binary mode too. e.g:
ftp.retrbinary("RETR " + file, open(file, "wb"))
or
ftp.storbinary("STOR " + file, open(file, "rb"), 1024)
the "open" function is documented under "built-in functions" in
the library reference.
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