"Christian Witts" <cwi...@compuscan.co.za> wrote
When I'm retrieving items I use retrbinary for eg.
The only issue with that is that if this is a real big-iron mainframe then ftp can translate EBCDIC to ASCII during the transfer whereas binary will, I think, bring the original file across untranslated. So you would have the extra decoding step to do manually. But binary transfer does simplify the transfer process. But if its not an EBCDIC machine then I'd definitely consider binary transfer for ftp. -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
