John Salerno wrote: > I've tried this already and it seems to work, but I'm curious if it's > okay to use urllib when trying to access a url that begins with ftp:// > instead of http://. Does this matter? It's only a text file, so it's not > really an FTP server I'm accessing, I don't think. I wasn't sure if > using ftplib would be overkill in this case, or if you even could use it > at all if you just want to get the page itself (the txt file).
from the urllib documentation: Currently, only the following protocols are supported: HTTP, (versions 0.9 and 1.0), Gopher (but not Gopher-+), FTP, and local files. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list