[Tutor] Getting a List of FTP Dirs?

[Britt Green]

Hello all,

Part of my job duties is to check an FTP backup site and insure that a bunch 
of files have backed up for that day. I have to check 300 folders. Ugh. So 
in a meeting today with a new boss, I said that this was a waste of time, 
and that someone should code up a program to automatically check it.

Unwisely, I said, "Its easy! I could write something like that."

Now I have to do it. :)

So, I've been playing with ftplib a bit and its very useful. However, this 
is what I'm stuck on. Say I have this listing of directories:

drwxrwx---   2 restback privftp       512 Mar  2 20:17 spice
drwxrwx---   2 restback privftp       512 Mar  2 20:03 terradisiena
drwxrwx---   2 restback privftp       512 Mar  2 20:22 tiburongrille
drwxrwx---   2 restback privftp       512 Mar  2 20:35 toulouse
drwxrwx---   2 restback privftp       512 Mar  2 20:50 vangoghs

How do I tell my program that spice, terradisiene, etc are directories it 
needs to go into? Since we regularly add and delete directories, I can't 
create a static file of them. My program needs to take a line like this:

drwxrwx---   2 restback privftp       512 Mar  2 20:17 spice

and understand that the last word in it will be a directory it needs to 
enter. And, I also need to let my program know when its done reading the 
listing of directories.

I could probably write something that creates a tuple, and to take the last 
element in that tuple as the directory, but beyond that I"m a bit lost.

Britt


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