ftplib - Did the whole file get sent?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand
Fri Oct 29 22:13:42 EDT 2010


In message <4cc5d9e9$0$1661$742ec2ed at news.sonic.net>, John Nagle wrote:

>     Look at sock_close in "socketmodule.c".  Note that it ignores the
> return status on close, always returns None, and never raises an
> exception.  As the Linux manual page for "close" says:
> "Not checking the return value of close() is a common but nevertheless
> serious programming error. It is quite possible that errors on a
> previous write(2) operation are first reported at the final close(). Not
> checking the return value when closing the file may lead to silent loss
> of data."

The close call is the wrong place to report such errors. For output, there 
should be some kind of flush-output call that you can use to get the error. 
Close should just unconditionally tear down the connection, which you can do 
whether the prior transfers were successful or not.



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