using urllib with ftp?

[John Salerno]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> John Salerno wrote:
> 
>> I've tried this already and it seems to work, but I'm curious if it's
>> okay to use urllib when trying to access a url that begins with ftp://
>> instead of http://. Does this matter? It's only a text file, so it's not
>>   really an FTP server I'm accessing, I don't think. I wasn't sure if
>> using ftplib would be overkill in this case, or if you even could use it
>> at all if you just want to get the page itself (the txt file).
> 
> from the urllib documentation:
> 
>     Currently, only the following protocols are supported: HTTP,
>     (versions 0.9 and 1.0), Gopher (but not Gopher-+), FTP, and
>     local files.

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.