get list of files

[eels]

Hello Fredrik,

thank's for your quick help.
Greetings Eels

Fredrik Lundh schrieb:

> "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)
> 
> </F>