Basic Python FTP Question

[Bob Piton]

I have just discovered how to do ftp with python, and have a question
about using macdef.

I can connect to the ftp site, using the .netrc file:

machine my.ftpsite.com
login myuserid
password mypass
macdef dload
cd maindir
get myfile


and the python command:

cmdline = "ftp my.ftpsite.com" % ()
os.system(cmdli ne)


but, once I connect, I would like to be able to enter more
commands to do whatever kind of ftp I want.

But the way it seems to work is that you can have a macdef init
which will do the same thing every time you connect.

If the macdef is named anything else, such as 'dload' as in the example,
above, there doesn't seem to be any way to enter a python command to
execute it.

I would like to have in the .netrc:

macdef def1
commands

macdef def2
commands

macdef def3
commands

etc.

and then somehow be able to run macdef def1 or macdef def2 etc.,
depending on what I am doing within the python script.

Or if it's not a matter of having the macdefs in the .netrc file, then I
would like to know how to set up the proper ftp commands in python.

I hope this makes sense. I have the feeling I am missing some obvious
thing.

[Ravi Teja]

Re: Basic Python FTP Question

Have you seen Python's ftplib?

http://effbot.org/librarybook/ftplib.htm

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ftplib.html

[Bob Piton]

Re: Basic Python FTP Question

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:09:34 -0800, Ravi Teja wrote:
[color=blue]
> Have you seen Python's ftplib?
> http://effbot.org/librarybook/ftplib.htm
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ftplib.html[/color]

No I hadn't. Thanks for the references; it looks like that method will do
anything I need to do with ftp.