Steve Holden wrote: > The only way I can think of to get the size of the file you're about to > download is using the FTP object's .dir() method. If you have the Tools > directory (standard on Windows, with source on other platforms) you can > take a look at the ftpmirror script - a fairly recent version can be seen at > > http://weblog.cs.uiowa.edu/python-2.3.1/Tools/scripts/ftpmirror.py
to handle arbitrary servers, you also need a flexibel LIST response parser; see: http://cr.yp.to/ftpparse.html python bindings: http://c0re.23.nu/c0de/ftpparsemodule/ and http://effbot.org/downloads/#ftpparse </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list