Chapter 17 ■ Ftp

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When you run this program, you will see output like this:

$ python nlst.py

13 entries:

INDEX

README

ephem_4.28.tar.Z

hawaii_scope

incoming

jupitor-moons.shar.Z

lunar.c.Z

lunisolar.shar.Z

moon.shar.Z

planetary

sat-track.tar.Z

stars.tar.Z

xephem.tar.Z

If you were to use an FTP client to log in to the server manually, you would see the same files listed. The result
will be different when you try another file listing command, as shown in Listing 17-8.

Listing 17-8. Getting a Fancy Directory Listing

#!/usr/bin/env python3

Foundations of Python Network Programming, Third Edition

https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/fopnp/blob/m/py3/chapter17/dir.py

from ftplib import FTP

def main():
ftp = FTP('ftp.ibiblio.org')
ftp.login()
ftp.cwd('/pub/academic/astronomy/')
entries = []
ftp.dir(entries.append)
ftp.quit()

print(len(entries), "entries:")
for entry in entries:
print(entry)

if name == 'main':
main()