* Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> [110914 16:46]: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Tim Johnson <t...@akwebsoft.com> wrote: > > I have written a class that uses ftplib.FTP as the parent. > > I need to reconcile the modified time of a workstation file with > > that same filename on a remote server. > > Let's say we have a file called '400.shtml'. I get the mtime on > > my workstation by > >>> os.path.getmtime('400.shtml') > > 1311648420.0 > > http://docs.python.org/library/os.path.html#os.path.getmtime > Your sample seems to be a typical Unix timestamp: Yup. Needs to be converted to a timedate stamp, methinks. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time I'll look at that tomorrow. Late here. > > And I use > >>> ftp.sendcmd('MDTM 400.shtml') ## for the remote server > > '213 20110726004703' > RFC 3659 - Extensions to FTP > Sec 3. File Modification Time (MDTM) > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3659#section-3 > > (Note: Code 213 = File status response) and '213 20110726004703'[4:] should give me the string representation of the timedate stamp on the remote file.
Thanks. I will look at the unix_time entry soon. -- Tim tim at johnsons-web dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list