Ivan Ven Osdel wrote: >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: python-list@python.org >>Sent: Saturday, August 2, 2008 11:05:07 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central >>Subject: Re: Agnostic fetching > >>Bruce Frederiksen schrieb: >> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:05:00 -0700, jorpheus wrote: >> >>> OK, that sounds stupid. Anyway, I've been learning Python for some >>> time now, and am currently having fun with the urllib and urllib2 >>> modules, but have run into a problem(?) - is there any way to fetch >>> (urllib.retrieve) files from a server without knowing the filenames? >>> For instance, there is smth like folder/spam.egg, folder/ >>> unpredictable.egg and so on. If not, perhaps some kind of glob to >>> create a list of existing files? I'd really appreciate some help, >>> since I'm really out of my (newb) depth here. >> >> You might try the os.path module and/or the glob module in the standard >> python library. > >>Not on remote locations. The only work on your local filesystem. > >>Diez > > Here's a function I wrote for checking remote or local file existence. It > works for me but admittedly I haven't tested many cases with it. Also its > currently specific to an http URI scheme.
<snip/> The idea was to *not* know the filenames beforehand, but instead get a directory-listing. Which is impossible to get. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
