Distinguish file and folder on ftp site

[Mailing List SVR]

Il giorno gio, 14/08/2008 alle 10.08 +0200, Fredrik Lundh ha scritto:
> Mailing List SVR wrote:
> 
> > is there a simple way to do this?
> > 
> > ftplib seems unable to distinguish between files and dir, a mimetype
> > check would be good,
> 
> the FTP protocol doesn't specify the format for the output from the LIST 
> command, so you have to use some heuristics; see e.g. the code in
> 
> http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Tools/scripts/ftpmirror.py
> 
> or use a wrapper for Dan Bernstein's ftpparse library (requires a C 
> compiler):
> 
>      http://cr.yp.to/ftpparse.html
>      http://c0re.23.nu/c0de/ftpparsemodule/
>      http://effbot.org/downloads/#ftpparse
> 

ftpparse seems broken, I found ftputil as the best solution,

thanks
Nicola

> Not sure what you mean by "mimetype"; that has nothing to do with 
> directories vs. files, afaik.
> 
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