Help implementing an idea

[Nicholas.Vaidyanathan at asu.edu]

Well, I'm a total python n00b, but I was playing around with exception handling 
yesterday, and was stricken by how incredibly easy it is to use the op system 
to create nice scripts... I did the following:

import sys
lines = sys.stdin.readlines()
lines.sort()
for stuff in lines:
    print stuff , 

just to copy stuff from one file to another, and was quite impressed with the 
results. Now, I was thinking today, I'd really like to create a program that 
can go to a specific directory and upload all the files in the directory to a 
specific url for backup purposes, and I have the feeling that the python 
implementation would be ruthlessly small and efficient, like the 
above....anyone who could point me in the right direction as to how to actually 
do it?