using urllib with ftp?

[Fredrik Lundh]

John Salerno wrote:

> Thanks. So the ftp:// is something different than actually using ftplib
> to connect to an FTP server, right? I've used both urllib and ftplib, so
> I know what they do, I just was a little unclear about whether they can
> sometimes do each other's work as well.

urllib uses ftplib under the hood, but all you can do is to fetch files or directory
listings.

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