Python Documentation?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Gerhard Häring wrote:

> I needed a quick way to "stat" files via FTP (it's a mirror script that
> synchronizes the maps, etc. on Unreal Tournament 2003 gameservers). As
> ftplib lacks any methods whatsoever to parse the output of the LIST
> command

which isn't that strange, given that the LIST command can output
anything (it's intended for human readers, not computers).

some useful links:

    http://cr.yp.to/ftpparse.html
    http://c0re.jp/c0de/ftpparsemodule/
    http://effbot.org/downloads/#ftpparse

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