using python ftp

[Octavian Rasnita]

Can this lib also work with ftps?

Thanks.

Octavian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anurag Chourasia" <anurag.chourasia at gmail.com>
To: "Matt Funk" <mafunk at nmsu.edu>
Cc: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 4:12 AM
Subject: Re: using python ftp


> Hi Matt,
> 
> I have a snippet to "upload" files (that match a particular search
> pattern) to a remote server.
> 
> Variable names are self explanatory. You could tweak this a little to
> "download" files instead.
> 
> from ftplib import FTP
> ftp = FTP(hostname)
> ftp.login(user_id,passwd)
> ftp.cwd(remote_directory)
> files_list=glob.glob(file_search_pattern)
> for file in files_list:
>    try:
>        ftp.storlines('STOR ' + file, open(file))
>    except Exception, e:
>        print ('Failed to FTP file: %s' %(file))
> ftp.close()
> 
> Regards,
> Anurag
> 
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Matt Funk <mafunk at nmsu.edu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i was wondering whether someone can point me whether the following
>> already exists.
>>
>> I want to connect to a server , download various files (for whose name i
>> want to be able to use a wildcard), and store those files in a given
>> location on the hard drive. If the file already exists i do not want to
>> download it.
>>
>> This seems fairly trivial and i would assume that there should be some
>> sort of implementation that does this easily but i didn't find anything
>> googling it.
>>
>> Otherwise i was going to do it "by hand" using ftplib:
>> 1) connect to server,
>> 2) change to directory on server
>> 3) get listing
>> 4) match the file pattern i want to the listing
>> 5) check if file already exists
>> 6) download file if matched and doesn't exist
>>
>> Can anyone offer any advice whether this already done somewhere?
>>
>> thanks
>> matt
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