[Tutor] FTP from mainframe

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010, bob gailer wrote:
>
>   On 7/29/2010 12:34 PM, Steve Bricker wrote:
>
>     This is my first attempt to FTP a file from a mainframe.  The code:
>     import ftplib

The easiest way I've found to get a file via ftp in python is to
user urllib, not ftplib.  Something like this (add error checking).

import urllib, os
fname='something.pdf'
url = 'ftp://%s@%s:%s/%s' % ('john', 'secret', 'example.com', fname)
# f will have a temporary file name, and h the headers
(f, h) = urllib.urlretrieve(url)
os.rename(f, fname)

Of course this works for http by simply changing the url.

Bill
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