I have just discovered how to do ftp with python, and have a question about using macdef.
I can connect to the ftp site, using the .netrc file: machine my.ftpsite.com login myuserid password mypass macdef dload cd maindir get myfile and the python command: cmdline = "ftp my.ftpsite.com" % () os.system(cmdline) but, once I connect, I would like to be able to enter more commands to do whatever kind of ftp I want. But the way it seems to work is that you can have a macdef init which will do the same thing every time you connect. If the macdef is named anything else, such as 'dload' as in the example, above, there doesn't seem to be any way to enter a python command to execute it. I would like to have in the .netrc: macdef def1 commands macdef def2 commands macdef def3 commands etc. and then somehow be able to run macdef def1 or macdef def2 etc., depending on what I am doing within the python script. Or if it's not a matter of having the macdefs in the .netrc file, then I would like to know how to set up the proper ftp commands in python. I hope this makes sense. I have the feeling I am missing some obvious thing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
