[Tutor] Stuck on Something (fwd)

[Daniel Yoo]

Dear Britt,

Let me forward this to the other tutors at tutor@python.org; I'll take a
look at your question later tonight, but perhaps someone else can answer
quickly in the meantime.

Talk to you later!


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 19:30:33 -0800
From: Britt Green <britt_green@hotmail.com>
To: dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu
Subject: Stuck on Something

Howdy,

I'm kinda stuck on my program, and I think its because I'm just not sure how 
to write it in Python. Let me show you the bit of code i have so far:

dirlist = ['/atl', '/boston', '/chicago']
ftp = FTP('ftp.opentable.com', 'account', 'password')

for folders in dirlist:
    ftp.cwd(folders)
    folderContents = getftplist(ftp)

Basically, this code goes into each of the three directories and returns, as 
a string, the list of directories in each folder. It kind of looks like 
this:

drwxrwx---   2 restback privftp       512 Feb  9 21:20 vivo
drwxrwx---   2 restback privftp       512 Mar  6 21:09 voltaire
drwxrwx---   2 restback privftp       512 Mar  6 21:10 vong
drwxrwx---   2 restback privftp       512 Mar  6 21:07 watusi
drwxrwx---   2 restback privftp       512 Mar  6 21:57 wildfire
drwxrwx---   2 restback privftp       512 Mar  6 21:35 zinfandel

So what I need to do with this chunk is to tell my program that vivo, 
voltaire, vong, etc are all directories it needs to enter. The way I thought 
I'd do this is to use the string.splitlines() command to split up 
folderContents into a list. Then I run into the problem of trying to split 
up each of the elements in the list. Its proving to be more difficult than I 
thought.

I'm hoping I can pick your brain once more. I know how I'd write this in 
C++, but not in Python. Any suggestions are appreciated!

Britt



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