[Tutor] FTP from mainframe

[Christian Witts]

On 29/07/2010 18:34, Steve Bricker wrote:
> This is my first attempt to FTP a file from a mainframe.  The code:
>
> import ftplib
> session = ftplib.FTP('company.lan.com','userid','passwd')
> myfile = open('PC.filename','w')
> session.retrlines("RETR 'mainframe.filename'", myfile)
> myfile.close()
> session.quit()
>
> The resulting error is:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "ftp_from_mf.py", line 5, in <module>
>     session.retrlines("RETR 'mainframe.filename'", myfile)
>   File "c:\python26\lib\ftplib.py", line 428, in retrlines
>     callback(line)
> TypeError: 'file' object is not callable
>
> Not sure what I'm missing.
>
> Steve Bricker
>
>
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When I'm retrieving items I use retrbinary for eg.

from ftplib import FTP

ftp = FTP(url, username, password)
for filename in ftp.nlst(''):
     ftp.retrbinary('RETR %s' % filename, open(filename, 'wb').write)
     ftp.delete(filename)

ftp.close()

I hope that helps.

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Christian Witts
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