Fredrik Lundh wrote: > John Salerno wrote: > >> I've tried this already and it seems to work, but I'm curious if it's >> okay to use urllib when trying to access a url that begins with ftp:// >> instead of http://. Does this matter? It's only a text file, so it's not >> really an FTP server I'm accessing, I don't think. I wasn't sure if >> using ftplib would be overkill in this case, or if you even could use it >> at all if you just want to get the page itself (the txt file). > > from the urllib documentation: > > Currently, only the following protocols are supported: HTTP, > (versions 0.9 and 1.0), Gopher (but not Gopher-+), FTP, and > local files.
Thanks. So the ftp:// is something different than actually using ftplib to connect to an FTP server, right? I've used both urllib and ftplib, so I know what they do, I just was a little unclear about whether they can sometimes do each other's work as well. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
