On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:10:25AM -0700, seldan24 wrote: > > I didn't even notice the higher level methods. I changed the > retrieval line to: > > ftp.nlst("testfile*.txt") > > This works great. The result is even captured in an array. I really > have no idea what the difference between a LIST and NLST is within > FTP. Never delved that deep into it. I did notice that an NLST will > return a specific FTP code if a file doesn't exist, whereas a LIST > doesn't. So, I ended up using NLST as that'll generate an > ftplib.error_perm exception. Based on if the job cares if a file is > not available or not (some do, some don't), I'll either exit, or > continue on with the file loop. >
The following thread from a NetBSD mailing list may help clarify this issue: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2001/01/30/0016.html NLST returns a machine-readable list of names, while LIST returns a human-readable list. Hene the presence of the FTP code in the case of NLST. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list