I am trying to use ftplib.FTP() with timeout option as some timeout value for a particular hostname. But i am experiencing weird behaviour. To test it i have written a very simple piece of code. i...

I'm using python with ftplib to upload images to a folder on my raspberryPi located in /var/www. Everything is working fine except that uploaded files have 600 permissions and I need 644 for them. ...

I cannot set ctime/mtime on my file within Python. First I get the original timestamp of the file through FTP. The only thing I want is to keep the original timestamps on my downloaded files using ...

UPDATE #1 The code in the question works pretty good for stable connection (like local network or intranet). UPDATE #2 I implemented the FTPClient class with ftplib which can: monitor a download p...

I am trying to read a file from an FTP server. The file is a .gz file. I would like to know if I can perform actions on this file while the socket is open. I tried to follow what was mentioned in t...

I want to send a file with python ftplib, from one ftp site to another, so to avoid file read/write processees. I create a BytesIO stream: myfile=BytesIO() And i succesfully retrieve a image fi...

I have the following python script for an upload that needs to show percent done. I am having trouble incrementing the variable that tracks the amount of data transferred. I get an UnboundLocalErro...

I'm a newbie in Python programming. My question is, how to download a few files at the same time. Not file by file but simultaneously from one directory on ftp. Now I use this script but I don't k...

I can't figure out how to pick between ftplib and urllib2 for downloading a file over FTP. As far as I can tell, they work comparably well, and most recommendations just seem to presume one o...

I have a FTP connection from which I am downloading many files and processing them in between. I'd like to be able to check that my FTP connection hasn't timed out in between. So the code looks som...

How exactly would you create a list of the entries in an FTP directory? This is my code so far: import ftplib files = [] my_ftp = ftplib.FTP(HOST) my_ftp.login(USERNAME,PASSWORD) line = my_ftp...

I'm trying to use ftplib to get a file listing and download any new files since my last check. The code I'm trying to run so far is: #!/usr/bin/env python from ftplib import FTP import sys host =...

I'm using ftplib to transfer files. Everything is working great. Now I'm trying to get the size of the target file before downloading. First, I tried just getting size with ftp.size(filename). Se...

I need to download a file from a host using SFTP. Do you know if is it possible to do that using Python ftplib? I saw an example here, but when I try to connect I receive EOFError. I tried ...

I have created a PHP-script to update a web server that is live inside a local directory. I'm migrating the script into Python. It works fine for the most part, but after a PUT command, the size of...