Hi John, On 2010-08-11 20:24, John Nagle wrote: > Perl has a function which will take a remote directory page, in > the form that most web sites return for a file directory, and > parse it into a useful form: > > http://www.xav.com/perl/site/lib/File/Listing.html > > This is especially useful for FTP sites. > > Is there a Python equivalent of this? I'm converting some > old Perl code. > > Even the Python FTP module doesn't have a directory parser.
I saw this posting only now. I hope it's not too late to point you to ftputil, http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net . :-) As the name implies, it's FTP-only for now, though. If you have any questions regarding the library, please ask. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list