ftplib
This module defines the class FTP and a few related items. The
FTP class implements the client side of the FTP protocol. You
can use this to write Python programs that perform a variety of
automated FTP jobs, such as mirroring other ftp servers. It is also
used by the module urllib to handle URLs that use FTP. For
more information on FTP (File Transfer Protocol), see Internet RFC
959.
Here's a sample session using the ftplib module:
>>> from ftplib import FTP
>>> ftp = FTP('ftp.cwi.nl') # connect to host, default port
>>> ftp.login() # user anonymous, passwd user@hostname
>>> ftp.retrlines('LIST') # list directory contents
total 24418
drwxrwsr-x 5 ftp-usr pdmaint 1536 Mar 20 09:48 .
dr-xr-srwt 105 ftp-usr pdmaint 1536 Mar 21 14:32 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp-usr pdmaint 5305 Mar 20 09:48 INDEX
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>>> ftp.quit()
The module defines the following items:
Subsections