I'm experimenting with this now and I'm a little confused about transferring commands. This might be more of an FTP question than strictly Python, but it's still related to how to use the ftplib methods.
Anyway, if what I want to do is send a command to change the file permission settings of a file (or files), I assume I would use transfercmd() and the command would be something like SITE CHMOD 755 name.py, for example. What I'm confused about is why the documentation says to send a PORT or PASV command as well. Is this just something that must be done before each command? Also, in order to figure out what the FTP commands are to begin with, I did a little testing in FileZilla and I noted what was being displayed at the top (things like PORT xxx, STOR xxx, SITE CHMOD, etc. depending on what I was doing). So I assume these are the 'cmd' parameter. So here are a couple of questions: 1. Are PORT/PASV necessary to start a transfer? 2. Is the cmd parameter some kind of list, or is it just a string and you have to call a separate transfercmd() for each command? 3. My burning question: also during every transfer I made in FileZilla, I see that it sometimes sends a TYPE A or TYPE I command as well. What are these, and are they also necessary when I'm using transfercmd()? Thanks! John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
