Calling ftp commands from python

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Wed Aug 31 17:40:48 EDT 2005


Thierry Lam wrote:
> Is it possible to run an ftp command to connect to some remote computer
> on the network.
> 
> For example, if I want to retrieve some data from
> \\remcomputer\datafiles on the network and copy it to my local
> computer, how do I do it in python on the Unix side?
> 
> I don't want to use mount since I don't have permission.
> 
> Thanks
> Thierry
> 
http://www.holdenweb.com/Python/PDCode/ftpStream.py shows you how to 
drive a remote FTP server using an object-oriented approach. Don;t know 
whether it'll help.

regards
  Steve
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