Is there a Python equivalent to Perl's File::Listing::parse_dir

[Thomas Jollans]

On Wednesday 11 August 2010, it occurred to John Nagle to exclaim:
> This is especially useful for FTP sites.

It sounds like you're trying to use HTTP to something a lot more easily done 
with FTP, without any reason not to use FTP.

http://docs.python.org/library/ftplib.html#ftplib.FTP.dir