ftplib error- Large file

[half.italian at gmail.com]

On Jun 7, 8:54 am, Facundo Batista <facu... at taniquetil.com.ar> wrote:
> half.ital... at gmail.com wrote:
> > Why would storbinary throw an exception even when the file transfer
> > was successful?  Why would the exception not be thrown until after the
> > file was sent?  Shouldn't ftplib return something like (104,
> > "Connection reset by peer") instead of throwing an error?  Is my
> > reasoning off somewhere?
>
> There was an error, the connection was reset by peer. The error code is
> 104. As it *was* an error, an exception is correct.
>
> You always can hide it yourself, with try/except...
>
> Regards,
>
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Ok.  I guess that makes sense.  But what about the other
questions...mainly: Why would it throw an exception even though the
file was properly transferred?

I guess this could be blamed on the FTP server.

~Sean