How to solve a problem?

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Mon Dec 31 13:00:22 EST 2001


"A" <printers at sendme.cz> wrote in message
news:mailman.1009388558.27442.python-list at python.org...
> Hi,
> My program downloads  regularly some files and it takes some
> time so I need to shorten this downloading time. As most of these
> files are the same, many times when the program downloads these
> files, I  would like to  download only those that are not the same or
> are newer. What is the best solution?
> Many thanks for help.
> Ladislav
>
Try taking a look at the ftpmirror.py program, normally to be found in the
tools subdirectory of your Python distribution. This will show you how to
mirror things by selective download.

regards
 Steve
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