[Pythonmac-SIG] FTPing a mac file - loosing resource fork?

[Chris,Mann]

Hello -
    I've just started using python, and the first thing I'm trying to do is
write a little script that retrieves a mac file from an FTP site (it's
actually a .sea file).
    Just when I thought I had everything working, I ran into a bit of a
snag.  I'm using the provided ftplib and everything seems to work fine,
except that the file looses it's resource fork.  Any ideas what I'm doing
wrong?

Here's the code (ftp_site is a dictionary of values that I pass in):

def get_remote(self, ftp_site):
  # open a local file so we have something to write the ftp data to
  fileID = open(ftp_site['localdir'] + ftp_site['file'] , 'wb')

  from ftplib import FTP

  print 'Retrieving ' + ftp_site['file'] + ' to ' + ftp_site['localdir']

  # open the site, set pasv transfer mode, and login
  ftp = FTP(ftp_site['host'])
  ftp.set_pasv(ftp_site['pasv'])
  ftp.login(ftp_site['user'], ftp_site['password'])
  # change to correct dir, check size, and retrieve
  ftp.cwd(ftp_site['remotedir'])
  if ftp.size(ftp_site['file']) <= 1000: # know file is always greater then
a meg
   print  'The file appears to be corrupted'
  ftp.retrbinary('RETR ' + ftp_site['file'], fileID.write, 1024)
  # cleanup
  fileID.close()
  ftp.close()

Also, is there a module to decode stuffit compressed files?  I had thought
about wrapping the stuffit expander OSAX into a module, but that seems a bit
roundabout.

thanks
-chris