Robert P. J. Day schrieb:
that is, i can just say, "go get file gcc-3.4.2.tar.bz2", and start searching at "ftp://pub.gnu.org/pub/gcc";. i may not know how far down in the directory structure that file is, but wget will happily search recursively until it finds it.
That sounds pretty inefficient and should produce some load on the server side. Imagine everyone doing that. Many FTP-servers provide files like "ls-R.gz" somewhere, meaning, a list of files and directories. And then, there's Google. Why do you have to use FTP? Ask Google for "yourfile.tar.bz2 site:the.domain.name". It will very likely return a suitable URL for you that you can use for download. Just tried it with "site:ftp.gnu.org gcc-3.4.2.tar.bz2" - works. You can even use that link and try to replace "http://"; with "ftp://"; for download. Should work for many source repositories.
You can use urllib2 for both querying and download.
Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
