[Tutor] FTP Errors

[Peter Otten]

John Weller wrote:

>>
>> >     except ftplib.all_errors as err:
>> 
>> Study the traceback carfully: the line above is the problem.
>> You probably wrote
>> 
>> from ftplib import FTP
>> 
> 
> You were quite right!!
> 
>> In both cases the name ftplib is not available to your module. To fix
>> this you can add the line
>> 
>> import ftplib
>> 
>> I recommend that for consistency you also change
>> 
>> >         ftp = FTP(data.ftp_host)     # connect to host, default port
>> 
>> to
>> 
>>           ftp = ftplib.FTP(data.ftp_host)
> 
> 
> Changed.
> 
>> and remove the from ... import.
>> 
> Not quite sure what this means?

I suppose you have a line

from ftplib import *

in your code? If so, remove that line. Instead add the line

import ftplib

As a consequence of that change you have to replace all occurences of

FTP

with 

ftplib.FTP