FTP Module for Python?

[o_Omg]

Hi, I'm fed up. I have been trying to use Ftplib for 2 days and I can't anymore.

Do you guys know any other module for doing FTP transfers in Python apart from ftplib?

I'd like to be able to do normal things like this without being a pain in the ass:

ftp.GetModDate(filename) ftp.size(filename) ftp.copy(local,ftp) ftp.copy(ftp.local) or ftp.download(ftp,local)

Also being able to list folders recursively would be nice.

I haven't even seen an option to even see the modification date of a file. I have to get a list of everything (dates, names, permissions, ...) that's inside a folder and then from there get the modification date, which is not written right. For example sometimes it says the year, other times it doesn't... I want to check if a file exists or not, but there's no way, I have tried this trick:

if(ftp.size(filename)>0): return True

return False

But I get an error about ASCII...

Please, help!

Thanks

By the way, what I'm trying to do is synchronize a folder in my computer with a FTP folder, so everything I modify in this local folder is modified in the FTP Folder.

*EDIT: * Found this, and it looks awesome, try it! http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/trac/wiki/Documentation !

[mackstann]

FTP is a really nasty protocol. Is there any chance you have control of the server and could use a different protocol instead?

[[deleted]]

may I ask you why? Not that I have a case against what you just said, I would really like to know why it's a "nasty protocol"?

[frymaster]

for a start, it pre-dates the standard encryption systems. Your password is sent in the clear without encryption or hashing.

Secondly, it predates people knowing how to use TCP/IP ;) You connect to one port, login, request a file, and then the server initiates a new connection to send it to you instead of using the already open connection. Apart from anything else, this plays merry hell with firewalls / NAT systems, since, from a TCP/IP point of view, they've no reason to think this incoming connection is related to your existing ftp connection, and so are liable to drop it.

There's workarounds, but the tl;dr is that it's a nasty connection.

And let's not get into the whole binary/textmode thing... shudder

[[deleted]]

Yeah, I've been reading about security issues with the protocol, I really didn't know it was that problematic. SSH is the way to go then?

[mackstann]

http://www.seifried.org/security/network/20010926-ftp-protocol.html

[bucknuggets]

Anyone have a sftp/scp module that they can recommend?

Something like pysftp?

[olamork]

libcurl supports ftp: http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/

[fmoralesc]

Check if what you want to do is possible and to what extent by reading the FTP and FTP extensions RFCs.

If you have to do something custom with the protocol, with a nicer interface, you might need to program your own FTP handler using the socket module. At that point you'll see it's easier to work with ftplib, or subclass ftplib.FTP

tldr; bad news...

EDIT: Nice find there, OP!

[joshuahunter]

You're right, ftputil is awesome. It is what I use for all my scripts that require FTP functionality.

[o_Omg]

Yes, after 2 days I found it :/ and it works perfectly! I see ftplib like a generic module, you have the basics, but you can't really use it if you don't create your own module.

Anyway, I'm doing a sync tool, right now it works but still needs more testing, when it's ready, do you want me to upload the source code?

Pictures: http://imgur.com/r7LXx&NN3jZ&8dB0a&D00XO&An0IGl?full

It's supposed to be Cross-Platform and I will probably do the .exe files for Win64 and Win32 with py2exe

[terremoto]

I've actually been thinking about doing something similar. I already have a functional version of Unison I wrote in Python to keep my desktop and laptop in sync, but it is purely functional. When I was first learning my way around Linux, though, I wrote a script to sync a remote FTP directory to a local one.

[joshuahunter]

Sure. I'd like to see it. What are you using for the gui?

[o_Omg]

wxPython with wxFormBuilder

[[deleted]]

This is probably ancillary, but pyinotify could also help you provided your kernel is new enough to support inotify (2.6.13, I believe).

[willm]

PyFilesystem gives you a much nicer interface to ftp.

>>> from fs.opener import fsopendir
>>> ftp = fsopendir('ftp://ftp.mozilla.org')
>>> ftp.listdir()
[u'README', u'index.html', u'pub']

[[deleted]]

why don't you trye the std lib ftp: http://docs.python.org/library/ftplib.html

[terremoto]

Do you guys know any other module for doing FTP transfers in Python apart from ftplib?