On Aug 18, 6:02 am, Nitebirdz <nitebi...@sacredchaos.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:10:25AM -0700, seldan24 wrote:
>
> > I didn't even notice the higher level methods. I changed the
> > retrieval line to:
>
> > ftp.nlst("testfile*.txt")
>
> > This works great. The result is even captured in an array. I really
> > have no idea what the difference between a LIST and NLST is within
> > FTP. Never delved that deep into it. I did notice that an NLST will
> > return a specific FTP code if a file doesn't exist, whereas a LIST
> > doesn't. So, I ended up using NLST as that'll generate an
> > ftplib.error_perm exception. Based on if the job cares if a file is
> > not available or not (some do, some don't), I'll either exit, or
> > continue on with the file loop.
>
> The following thread from a NetBSD mailing list may help clarify this
> issue:
>
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2001/01/30/0016.html
>
> NLST returns a machine-readable list of names, while LIST returns a
> human-readable list. Hene the presence of the FTP code in the case of
> NLST.
Nitebirdz,
Thanks for the information. I knew it stood for 'named list' but had
no idea how that differed from the standard. I appreciate the link.
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