[Tutor] FTP file transfer stops, no error given

Thu May 19 12:37:57 EDT 2016

On 19/05/16 15:11, Craig Jackson wrote:

> ftp. In a nutshell the problem is that if the two objectives are
> combined into one Python script, ftp stops uploading in the middle of
> the file, but if the same code is split into two files, web page
> creation in one script and ftp in another, and they are run
> separately, ftp uploads the entire file and it all works. Below are
> the details.

Unfortunately you seem to have sent the variation that works.
We cannot really tell what is going on unless we can see the
code that fails.

There is one possibility based on the code below...

> htmlpage.write('<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta
> charset="UTF-8"><title>Peckerwood Garden Docent Notes</title>\n')
> htmlpage.write('<meta name="robots" content="noindex">')
> htmlpage.write('<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">')
> htmlpage.write('<link rel=Stylesheet href="css/stylesheet.css"></head>\n')
> htmlpage.write('<body>\n')
> htmlpage.write('<table>\n')
> htmlpage.write('<tr>\n')
> htmlpage.write('<th class="uid">Unique ID</th>\n')
> htmlpage.write('<th class="loc">Location</th>\n')
> htmlpage.write('<th class="nam">Name</th>\n')
> htmlpage.write('<th class="fam">Family</th>\n')
> htmlpage.write('<th class="com">Common Name</th>\n')
> htmlpage.write('<th class="nat">Nativity</th>\n')
> htmlpage.write('<th class="pho">Photographs</th>\n')
> htmlpage.write('<th class="des">Description</th>\n')
> htmlpage.write('</tr>\n')

Consider using triple quoted strings to save yourself a lot of typing
and to make the html easier to read.

> ...
>     htmlpage.write('</td>')
>     htmlpage.write('<td class="des">' + description +'</td></tr>\n')
> htmlpage.write('</table></body></html>')
> htmlpage.close

Note that there are no parens after close. So you do not execute the
function and the file is not closed.

If you then try to ftp the still open file that could explain the
problems you are having. Whereas if you run this as a separate script
the file will be auto-closed at the end of the script so running the
ftp separately will work..

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