On Jan 24, 8:57 pm, Bart Kastermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have written a little program that takes as input a text file, > converts > it to a list with appropriate html coding (making it into a nice > table). > Finally I want to upload this list as a textfile using ftp. > > If homeworkhtml contains the list of lines; > e.g. homeworkhtml = ["<table>", "<tr>", "<td>", "test", "</td>" ..... > > I want to call: > ftp.storlines("STOR " + filename, homeworkhtml) > > which gives me the error > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "./testhw.py", line 67, in ? > ftp.storlines("STOR " + filename, homeworkhtml) > File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ > python2.3/ftplib.py", line 428, in storlines > AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'readline' Perhaps what you want is StringIO. It lets your pretend a string is a file so ftplib won't choke. You'll have to convert your list to a string, though (perhaps with join): from cStringIO import StringIO fake_file = StringIO("".join(my_list)) > > Expected since homeworkhtml is in fact not a file. Is there a way > to convert this list to a file object without first writing it to disc > and > then opening the resulting file? > > Best, > Bart
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