An FTP Client...My first real program!

[Python Nutter]

ery low level and not very useful for beginners as a lot of the heavy
lifting and management is still left up to you, the programmer.

The module ftputil is a high-level interface to the ftplib module. The
FTPHost objects generated from it allow many operations similar to
those of os and os.path. An example:

# download some files from the login directory
host = ftputil.FTPHost('ftp.domain.com', 'user', 'secret')
names = host.listdir(host.curdir)
for name in names:
   if host.path.isfile(name):
       host.download(name, name, 'b')  # remote, local, binary mode
# make a new directory and copy a remote file into it
host.mkdir('newdir')
source = host.file('index.html', 'r')  # file-like object
target = host.file('newdir/index.html', 'w')  # file-like object
host.copyfileobj(source, target)  # similar to shutil.copyfileobj
source.close()
target.close()


Now if you are again purely in it for a challenge or for and
educational roller coaster ride, ignore the suggestion to look at
higher level ftp modules =)

Cheers,
PN