ftp mget

[Rich Krauter]

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 18:54, allanc wrote:
> Anybody know if there's an ftp client in python that can do an mget?
> 
> My current implementation of an mget uses ftpconnection.nlst() to retrieve 
> the list of filenames. Then iterates through this list with
> retrlines('RETR ' + fname,callback).
> 
> I'd like to eliminate a LIST command on the ftp server altogether.
> 
> Thanks to all.


You may want to look in the python distribution at the script
Tools/scripts/ftpmirror.py. It's referenced on the module documentation
page for ftplib. 
It basically does what you're doing - parsing text returned by the LIST
command. It will probably give you some ideas, or let you know whether
you're barking up the wrong tree.  

Rich