Hello Matt, On 2010-12-23 01:03, Matt Funk wrote: > i was wondering whether someone can point me whether the following > already exists. > > I want to connect to a server , download various files (for whose name i > want to be able to use a wildcard), and store those files in a given > location on the hard drive. If the file already exists i do not want to > download it. > [...]
You might want to check out ftputil: http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/ http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/trac/wiki/Documentation > Otherwise i was going to do it "by hand" using ftplib: > 1) connect to server, > 2) change to directory on server > 3) get listing > 4) match the file pattern i want to the listing > 5) check if file already exists > 6) download file if matched and doesn't exist > > Can anyone offer any advice whether this already done somewhere? ftputil will do most of these tasks easily. For step 4 you probably want to use Python's fnmatch module, see http://docs.python.org/library/fnmatch.html . If you have questions on ftputil, there's also a mailing list: http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/trac/wiki/MailingList (You need to be subscribed to the list to post, though.) Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
