get list of files

[Fredrik Lundh]

"eels" wrote:

> I want to get a listing of my files at web server with ftp. I wantn 't
> download the files.
> With yyy = ftp.retrlines('LIST') I get this listing at stdout, but I
> need this information at variable yyy.
> How can I resolve this problem?

as mentioned in the documentation, you need to provide a callback if
you want to collect the data from a retr operation.

   yyy = []
   ftp.retrlines("LIST", yyy.append)

should do the trick.

(also see the dir and nlst methods)

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