multiple file deletes using ftp.delete

[Drew]

On Jan 19, 11:16 pm, "Drew" <nospam.notos... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
> I'm fairly new to python so please forgive my lack of comprehension of
> the obvious.
>
> I'm writing a script to ftp files to a server. This script will run
> weekly. Part of the script first deletes the previous weeks files. The
> problem is I'm never sure of the exact number and full name of the
> files that need to be deleted. All the files start with the same string
> but have different extensions (eg drew.1 drew.2 drew.tmp drew.hlp). So
> I was wondering if anybody knows how to use a wild card similar to * in
> UNIX to do the delete? Something like:
>
> ftp.delete("drew.*")
>
> Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Drew Dowling

I should have summed if up thus: I'm trying to find a way to issue the
ftp mdelete command in python.