[Tutor] file transfered through ftplib not the right size

[Michel Bélanger]

Hi all,

I open an ftp channel with my web site from the following commands:

ftp = ftplib.FTP("Host.com")
ftp.login("User","Password")

then the transfer call for a download is as follow:

getbinary(ftp, row[0], row[0])

but the file received is not the right size (larger), i.e. 5150 kb 
received vs 5136 kb
Any idea why?


def getbinary(ftp, filename, outfile=None):
    # fetch a binary file
    if outfile is None:
        outfile = sys.stdout
    f = open(outfile, "w")
    ftp.retrbinary("RETR " + filename, f.write)
    f.flush()
    f.close()

Many thanks

Michel Belanger