ftp: get list of files

[Lawrence Oluyede]

"eels" <eels at nikocity.de> writes:

> 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 written in the doc retrlines has an optional parameter (a callback function)
called on each line retrieved, so you can do something like this:

from ftplib import FTP

def writeline(data):
    fd.write(data + "\n")

f = FTP('ftp.kernel.org')
f.login()

f.cwd('/pub/linux/kernel')
fd = open('README', 'wt')
f.retrlines('RETR README', writeline)
fd.close()
f.quit()


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