Michele Simionato wrote: > the README says "for a usage example, see the sanity.py test > script" but there is not such a script in the distribution :-(
looks like a distutils glitch... try this one: # $Id$ # minimal sanity check import string TESTS = [ "# examples taken from ftpparse.c", "+i8388621.29609,m824255902,/,\tdev", "+i8388621.44468,m839956783,r,s10376,\tRFCEPLF", "-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 531 Jan 29 03:26 README", "dr-xr-xr-x 2 root other 512 Apr 8 1994 etc", "dr-xr-xr-x 2 root 512 Apr 8 1994 etc", "lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 7 Jan 25 00:17 bin -> usr/bin", "04-27-00 09:09PM <DIR> licensed", "07-18-00 10:16AM <DIR> pub", "04-14-00 03:47PM 589 readme.htm", ] import _ftpparse # parse sample strings for line in TESTS: print repr(line), "->" try: item = _ftpparse.parse(line) except ValueError: print "***", "cannot parse this line" else: print " ", (item.name, item.size, item.mtime, item.id, item.trycwd) # check behaviour for unknown attributes try: item.unknown except AttributeError: pass # end on my machine, this prints: '# examples taken from ftpparse.c' -> *** cannot parse this line '+i8388621.29609,m824255902,/,\tdev' -> ('dev', None, 824255902, '8388621.29609', True) '+i8388621.44468,m839956783,r,s10376,\tRFCEPLF' -> ('RFCEPLF', 10376, 839956783, '8388621.44468', False) '-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 531 Jan 29 03:26 README' -> ('README', 531, 1106969160, None, False) 'dr-xr-xr-x 2 root other 512 Apr 8 1994 etc' -> ('etc', 512, 765763200, None, True) 'dr-xr-xr-x 2 root 512 Apr 8 1994 etc' -> ('etc', 512, 765763200, None, True) 'lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 7 Jan 25 00:17 bin -> usr/bin' -> ('bin', 7, 1106612220, None, True) '04-27-00 09:09PM <DIR> licensed' -> ('licensed', None, 956869740, None, True) '07-18-00 10:16AM <DIR> pub' -> ('pub', None, 963915360, None, True) '04-14-00 03:47PM 589 readme.htm' -> ('readme.htm', 589, 955727220, None, False) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list