Question about Object Oriented + functions/global vars?

[flamesrock]

ok, so to my knowledge, object oriented means splitting something into
the simplest number of parts and going from there. But the question is-
when is it enough?

For example I have the following code:

#def put_file(file_id, delete=False):
#    """  Function to put the file on the FTP Server
#    """
#    print "["+file_id+"] FTP for this file started"
#    print "[" + file_id + "] Connecting to machine " + global_addr
#    ftp_pool = FTP_pool(file_id,1,40,global_uid,global_pwd)
#    print 'in put_file'
#    try:
#        ftp = ftplib.FTP(global_addr)
#        ftp.login(global_uid, global_pwd)
#        print ftp.getwelcome() +'\n'
#        ftp.cwd(global_ftp_loc)
>#        ext = os.path.splitext(file_id)[1]
>#        if ext not in (".sc4", ".snpickle"):
>#            ftp.storlines("STOR " + file_id, open(file_id))
>#        else:
>#            ftp.storbinary("STOR " + file_id, open(file_id, "rb"), 1024)
#        ftp.quit()
#        ftp_pool.close_all()
#    except:
#        ftp_pool.close_all()
#        print "[" + file_id + "]Unable to access FTP location"
#        print "[" + file_id + "]Error:" + str(sys.exc_info()[0]) + " "
+ str(sys.exc_info()[1])
#        upload_status[file_id] = "FAILED"
#        raise
#    else:
#        print "[" + file_id + "] FTP for file completed"
#        upload_status[file_id] = "SUCCESS"



would the lines with '>#' best be split up into a seperate function,
for example:



#def upload(ftp, file):
#    ext = os.path.splitext(file)[1]
#    if ext in (".txt", ".htm", ".html"):
#        ftp.storlines("STOR " + file, open(file))
#    else:
#        ftp.storbinary("STOR " + file, open(file, "rb"), 1024)


and then doing the call 'upload(file_id)', or is it a better practice
to leave things the way they were? I'm confused.

Finally, is it considered 'un-object-oriented' in python to have
functions inside a module that are called by objects (ie the upload
function above) and/or use global variables in combination?

-thanks in advance