An FTP client class and some helper functions.
Based on RFC 959: File Transfer Protocol (FTP), by J. Postel and J. Reynolds
Example:
>>> from ftplib import FTP
>>> ftp = FTP(ftp.python.org
) # connect to host, default port
>>> ftp.login() # default, i.e.: user anonymous, passwd anonymous@
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
>>> ftp.retrlines(LIST
) # list directory contents
total 9
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 1024 Jan 3 1994 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 1024 Jan 3 1994 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Jan 3 1994 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Jan 3 1994 etc
d-wxrwxr-x 2 ftp wheel 1024 Sep 5 13:43 incoming
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Nov 17 1993 lib
drwxr-xr-x 6 1094 wheel 1024 Sep 13 19:07 pub
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 Jan 3 1994 usr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 312 Aug 1 1994 welcome.msg
226 Transfer complete.
>>> ftp.quit()
221 Goodbye.
>>>
A nice test that reveals some of the network dialogue would be: python ftplib.py -d localhost -l -p -l