using python ftp

[Anurag Chourasia]

Hi Matt,

I have a snippet to "upload" files (that match a particular search
pattern) to a remote server.

Variable names are self explanatory. You could tweak this a little to
"download" files instead.

from ftplib import FTP
ftp = FTP(hostname)
ftp.login(user_id,passwd)
ftp.cwd(remote_directory)
files_list=glob.glob(file_search_pattern)
for file in files_list:
    try:
        ftp.storlines('STOR ' + file, open(file))
    except Exception, e:
        print ('Failed to FTP file: %s' %(file))
ftp.close()

Regards,
Anurag

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Matt Funk <mafunk at nmsu.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i was wondering whether someone can point me whether the following
> already exists.
>
> I want to connect to a server , download various files (for whose name i
> want to be able to use a wildcard), and store those files in a given
> location on the hard drive. If the file already exists i do not want to
> download it.
>
> This seems fairly trivial and i would assume that there should be some
> sort of implementation that does this easily but i didn't find anything
> googling it.
>
> Otherwise i was going to do it "by hand" using ftplib:
> 1) connect to server,
> 2) change to directory on server
> 3) get listing
> 4) match the file pattern i want to the listing
> 5) check if file already exists
> 6) download file if matched and doesn't exist
>
> Can anyone offer any advice whether this already done somewhere?
>
> thanks
> matt
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