ftplib storbinary problem

[Robin Becker]

In article <mailman.990191606.31921.python-list at python.org>, Sandipan
Gangopadhyay <sandipan at vsnl.com> writes
>I am using storbinary('STOR a.jpg', openfilepointer, 1024) from the ftplib
>to upload a picture to an FTP server (server2031.virtualave.net)
>
>While this works fine with ASCII files, it is not working for .jpg where we
>need binary ! Depending on the block size (like 1024 above), only 274 bytes
>or so are getting uploaded. The function returns a successful transfer.
>
>I am trying this on pythonwin, on Win 98. I have tried blocksize range from
>0 to 10240000. I have tried both active and passive mode.
>
>Anyone know where I am going wrong ?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sandipan
>
>
>
are you opening the openfile pointer thing in binary mode

eg
        f = open('bongo','rb')
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Robin Becker