"swarna pulavarty" wrote: > I am new to this Python group and to Python . I need to retrieve data > from an arbitrary URL and save it to a file.
if you have an URL, you can use the urllib module: urllib.urlretrieve(url, filename) > Can anyone tell me how to retrieve "any" data using FTP modules in > Python ? And also, Can you suggest me some books and online references > to get familiar with Python and especially FTP modules in Python ? for python, start here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide for ftplib, see e.g. http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/module-ftplib.html http://effbot.org/librarybook/ftplib.htm </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list