Lawrence Oluyede wrote:
> "eels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>>With yyy = ftp.retrlines('LIST') I get this listing at stdout, but I
>>need this information at variable yyy.
>>How can I resolve this problem?
>
>
> As written in the doc retrlines has an optional parameter (a callback
> function)
> called on each line retrieved, so you can do something like this:
>
> from ftplib import FTP
>
> def writeline(data):
> fd.write(data + "\n")
>
> f = FTP('ftp.kernel.org')
> f.login()
>
> f.cwd('/pub/linux/kernel')
> fd = open('README', 'wt')
> f.retrlines('RETR README', writeline)
> fd.close()
> f.quit()
How about a little more portability?
def writeline(data):
fd.write(data + os.linesep)
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