FTPlib

[Fredrik Lundh]

Harlin Seritt wrote:

> Using ftplib from Python I am trying to get all files in a particular
> directory using ftplib and then send those same files to another ftp
> server. I have tried using commands like 'get *' and 'mget *' with no
> success.
>
> I am using the following:
>
> srcFtp = FTP(srcHost)
> srcFtp.login(srcUser, srcPass)
> srcDir = srcFtp.nlst('.')
> for file in srcDir:
>     print file[2:]
>     srcFtp.transfercmd('get '+file[2:])
>
> I've verified that I do have a connection with the ftp server and the
> files as 'file[2:]' are indeed the file names.
>
> Anyone know why I get the following error?
>
> podcast-1.mp3
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "podsync.py", line 17, in ?
>     srcFtp.transfercmd('get '+file[2:])
>   File "C:\Python24\lib\ftplib.py", line 345, in transfercmd
>     return self.ntransfercmd(cmd, rest)[0]
>   File "C:\Python24\lib\ftplib.py", line 327, in ntransfercmd
>     resp = self.sendcmd(cmd)
>   File "C:\Python24\lib\ftplib.py", line 241, in sendcmd
>     return self.getresp()
>   File "C:\Python24\lib\ftplib.py", line 216, in getresp
>     raise error_perm, resp
> ftplib.error_perm: 500 Syntax error, command unrecognized.

ftplib works with FTP protocol commands, not ftp client commands (such
as get and mget).

to read data from a remote server, you can use something like:

    dst = open(localfile, "wb")
    srcFtp.retrbinary("RETR " + file[2:], dst.write)
    dst.close()

for more examples, see

    http://effbot.org/librarybook/ftplib.htm

for an extensive description of FTP-as-deployed, see daniel bernstein's
site:

    http://cr.yp.to/ftp.html

hope this helps!

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