{"id":34479,"date":"2017-11-25T03:01:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T17:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=34479"},"modified":"2017-11-24T12:15:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T02:15:23","slug":"python-ftp-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/python-ftp-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Python ftp Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Python ftp Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Python is a great server side language to learn. Some web server configurations use it as their “go to” server language, though ours here at rjmprogramming.com.au uses PHP (and so we’ve written a PHP “supervisor” to dovetail with today’s Python code).<\/p>\n

We’re going to write this Python code, that facilitates the listing of an ftp URL “path”, to run as if from a Linux (or Mac OS X, which we tested with for the work today) command line.<\/p>\n

So, underlying the PHP supervisory live run<\/a> today, the hard working “duck child” Python goes like …<\/p>\n


\n\"\"\"
\nftp_url.py - RJM Programming - November 2017
\nShow some ftp functionality ... thanks to Python & XML by O'Reilly ISBN: 0-596-00128-2
\n\"\"\"
\nimport sys
\n<\/b>
\nfrom urllib import urlopen
\n<\/b>
\ndef main(argv):
\n<\/b>
\n if len(sys.argv) == 5:
\n fd=urlopen(\"ftp:\/\/\" + sys.argv[2] + \":\" + sys.argv[3] + \"@\" + sys.argv[1] + sys.argv[4])
\n else:
\n if len(sys.argv) == 4:
\n fd=urlopen(\"ftp:\/\/\" + sys.argv[2] + \":\" + sys.argv[3] + \"@\" + sys.argv[1])
\n else:
\n if len(sys.argv) == 3:
\n fd=urlopen(\"ftp:\/\/mkuulma@ozemail.com.au:\" + sys.argv[1] + \"@ftp.ozemail.com.au\" + sys.argv[2])
\n else:
\n if len(sys.argv) == 2:
\n fd=urlopen(\"ftp:\/\/mkuulma@ozemail.com.au:\" + sys.argv[1] + \"@ftp.ozemail.com.au\")
\n else:
\n print \"Usage is via ... python ftp_url.py [ftphost=ftp.ozemail.com.au] [ftpusername=mkuulma@ozemail.com.au] ftppassword [subpath=\/]\"
\n exit()
\n<\/b>
\n print fd.read()
\n exit()
\n<\/b>
\nif __name__ == \"__main__\":
\n main(sys.argv[1:])
\n<\/b>
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

… or you can download it as ftp_url.py<\/a> (supervised by ftp_url.php<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Interesting, huh?!<\/p>\n

If this was interesting you may be interested in this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n