Agnostic fetching

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Bruce Frederiksen schrieb:
> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:05:00 -0700, jorpheus wrote:
> 
>> OK, that sounds stupid. Anyway, I've been learning Python for some
>> time now, and am currently having fun with the urllib and urllib2
>> modules, but have run into a problem(?) - is there any way to fetch
>> (urllib.retrieve) files from a server without knowing the filenames?
>> For instance, there is smth like folder/spam.egg, folder/
>> unpredictable.egg and so on. If not, perhaps some kind of glob to
>> create a list of existing files? I'd really appreciate some help,
>> since I'm really out of my (newb) depth here.
> 
> You might try the os.path module and/or the glob module in the standard
> python library.

Not on remote locations. The only work on your local filesystem.

Diez