ftp(and praise of your book)

[Originally posted by daryl harms]

> Hy Daryl,
> first I want to tell you that I like your book very much. I am an old hand
> programming and came to python for zope reasons some months ago. According to
> my habit to go to the bookstore when ever I have a programming problem and buy
> a book or two to help me solve itI have a massive bookself).
> Lerning a new language hapened to be such a problem. So I bougth some
> python-boks. One with a fat snake one the cover. But yours the best! It is my
> reference with just the amount of introduction an referce material a
> programmers needs. Exelent work!
> Now my question: I am looking for samples concerning usage of ftplib. What I
> want to do is to upload rather large binary documents (1 to 10 MB) to an
> ftp-server and manage them trough mysql. It is the managing of the up/download
> process I am interested in.
> thank you for your time
> Robert

Hi Robert,

Thanks for your comments! Its nice to get positive feedback from someone who
has experience with a significant number of different books. Especially
considering those "animal on the cover" books usually get the bulk of the
attention smilie

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I haven't done much beyond the very basic with ftplib, so can't vouch for any
of the following:

A couple of places you might try looking (that you should already have on your
machine) are the module urllib and the script ftpmirror.py (in Tools/Scripts).

Beyond that, a search on the Vaults of Parnassus of "ftp":
http://www.vex.net/parnassus/apyllo.py?find=ftp

brings up a number of programs that you can download. Some of these (actually
the first five or so) might prove useful for ideas or as sources of code to
incorporate.

"upload" from:
http://www.ndh.net/home/sschwarzer/python/python_software.html

Daryl