Module
ftplib

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