morecowbell wrote: > i got a bunch of zip files on a remote server and need to get to one > of the files, an xml file, in each of the archives. fairly simple to > do locally with zipfile but i don't seem to be able to combine that > local code with the paramiko sftp client. a rather simplified code > snippet to illustrate: > > import os > import paramiko > import StringIO > import zipfile > > remote_file = 'remote.zip' > ssh = paramiko.SSHClient() > ssh.load_host_keys(os.path.expanduser(os.path.join("~", ".ssh", > "known_hosts"))) > ssh.connect('www.xxx.com', username='root', password='it_aint') > sftp = ssh.open_sftp() > dirlist = sftp.listdir('.') > zipfile = sftp.file('remote.zip', 'r') > unzip = ZipFile(zfile) > for f in unzip.namelist(): > if f.endswith('.xml'): > output.write(unzip.read(unzip)) > xmlfiles.append(output.getvalue()) > > sftp.close() > ssh.close()
I suppose this code doesn't work for you? What's the output you get? "don't seem to be able" is not a very helpful problem description. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list