libftp.size function gives wrong results!

[Michael Davis]

Hi,

I just realized that this isn't a python question, it's an ftp question. I 
tried doing:

size index.html

from the ftp prompt, and it too gave me the wrong size!

So I apologize for being off-topic. The trouble is, I can't seem to find a 
newsgroup specific to ftp problems. The existing ftp newsgroups seem to be 
just full of announcements about servers with adult content...

Cheers,
Michael

Michael Davis wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm writing a python program which will upload or download files via ftp.
> It's intended to be used to deploy a web site from a local machine to a
> server. It tries to determine which files are modified on the local
> machine by comparing file sizes and modification times.
> 
> I try to compare files using os.stat for the local file and FTP.size for
> the remote. The problem is, FTP.size is giving me incorrect results. If I
> use the ftp command line client, and look at one of my files on the server
> (the output looks like 'ls -l') then I can see that the file size, is,
> say, 1200. But the FTP.size function returns, say, 1242. This happens for
> all the files, they're all reported to be about 5% larger than they really
> are.
> 
> Is there a better way of doing this, aside from capturing the output of
> FTPLIB.dir (which goes to stdout) and parsing it?
> 
> Thanks in advance!

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