[Tutor] paramiko again

[Matt Herzog]

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:53:49AM +0100, Alan Gauld wrote:
> Have you used normal ftp in its command line version?
> The put command specifies the location on the  remote machine
> where you want to store the files. This is normal ftp behaviour.

The server supports only sftp. Yeah, I could turn on ftp on some server but that would be more work. Heh.

> Yes. sftp is an object that you create with a call from paramiko.
> The class exists in paramiko and you create an instance of it
> called sftp.

Oh. I could call it anything, not that I'd want to. Thanks. I kept thinking I could find it using ipython.

> So you are trying to upload files that currently exist on the
> remote machine from your machine, that is unlikely to work.

Yes. That was not the plan though. Heh.

> I suspect you probably need to change the listdir() call to use
> os.listdir(local_path) instead of stftp.listdir(). Where local_path
> is wherever you store the files on the local mnachine that you
> want to transfer.

Yes, that is exactly what I wanted, os.listdir. But now I have another issue:
specifying the remote dir. When I login to the sftp server and type pwd:

sftp> pwd
Remote working directory: /

Is what I see. 

Also, I don't think I want "join" in the below, do I? Why do I want to "join" the two dirs? As far as I'm concerned, I just want to dump files into the only dir I can reach, which is "/" on the remote host's jail.

sftp.get(os.path.join(dir_path, f), f)

> 
> HTH,

It did help. Many thanks!
> 
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> http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ 
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