Hello,
I want to write a module that transfers a given file to a given
destination with a given protocol (ftp, sftp, scp)
to start out, just ftp would be sufficient
the destination machines are sometimes unavailable, or the transfer
fails sometimes due to connection problems
I have several questions (sorry....):
1) python ftplib or curl via commands.getoutput(...)? what are the
benefits / drawbacks (portability is not an issue for me, and I like
curl a lot)
2) Is there a simple way to create a subprocess(?) that I can
dispatch my transfer jobs to from my main script.
The goal is that my main script can proceed without beeing hung
by the transfer process
3) that subprocess would need a queue, that collects all transfer
jobs. can you give me some hints on how that could be done in python
4) the subprocess (?) would try to transfer all jobs one after another
if one transfer fails, retry after a certain time period (say
2, 5, 10, 20, 40 min) and stop after maxnum retries
how could I code this nicely in python without resorting to if
then else etc?
or is there a module that does 1)-4) out there somewhere already?
thanks for any insight you might have
-frank
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