Hi Arne, On 2006-04-08 12:44, Arne wrote: > I am looking for a way to put ftp returns in a variable. > > My OS is XP and I want to get the owner of a file. So I have to > > connect to ftp. But I am stacked with how I can receive this > information and put it in a variable.
you can use a library to handle that. One of them is ftputil ( http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/ ), which I know because I'm its author. ;-) Surely, there are alternatives. You can search the Python package index at http://www.python.org/pypi . With ftputil, you would do import ftputil host = ftputil.FTPHost(hostname, user, password) # st_uid is used by Python's os.(l)stat, but it's a string here, # not an integer user = host.stat(file_or_dir).st_uid ... host.close() This works only if the output of the FTP LIST command contains the user information (which is often the case). ftputil is pure Python and should work on OS X without problems. If you think that installing/using an additional library is overkill, you can extract the necessary parser code from the file ftp_stat.py or write your own parser. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
