Getting the bytes or percent uploaded/downloaded through FTP?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Steve Holden wrote:

> The only way I can think of to get the size of the file you're about to
> download is using the FTP object's .dir() method. If you have the Tools
> directory (standard on Windows, with source on other platforms) you can
> take a look at the ftpmirror script - a fairly recent version can be seen at
>
>     http://weblog.cs.uiowa.edu/python-2.3.1/Tools/scripts/ftpmirror.py

to handle arbitrary servers, you also need a flexibel LIST response
parser; see:

    http://cr.yp.to/ftpparse.html

python bindings:

    http://c0re.23.nu/c0de/ftpparsemodule/

and

    http://effbot.org/downloads/#ftpparse

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