ftpretty

A wrapper for simple FTP operations:

The goal of this library is to provide a frictionless experience to FTPing files in way similar to Amazon's s3cmd command line tool. The API should be intuitive with the order of arguments reflecting the transfer direction of bytes.

Transfers are assumed to be binary.

Unrecognized commands fall through to the underlying FTP or FTP_TLS connection object

Python3 optimized version, not on pypi quite yet...

Examples

from ftpretty import ftpretty

# Minimal
f = ftpretty(host, user, pass)

# Advanced
# kwargs are passed to underlying FTP or FTP_TLS connection
# secure=True argument switches to an FTP_TLS connection default is False
# passive=False disable passive connection, True is the default
f = ftpretty(host, user, pass, secure=True, passive=False, timeout=10)

# Get a file, save it locally
f.get('someremote/file/on/server.txt', '/tmp/localcopy/server.txt')

or

# Get a file and write to an open file
myfile = open('/tmp/localcopy/server.txt', 'wb')
f.get('someremote/file/on/server.txt', myfile)

or

# Get a file and return contents (in python 3 contents is bytes)
contents = f.get('someremote/file/on/server.txt')

# Put a local file to a remote location
# non-existent subdirectories will be created automatically
f.put('/tmp/localcopy/data.txt', 'someremote/file/on/server.txt')

or

# Put a local file into a remote directory, denoted by trailing slash on remote
f.put('/tmp/localcopy/data.txt', 'someremote/dir/')

or

# Put using an open file desciptor
myfile = open('/tmp/localcopy/data.txt', 'r')
f.put(myfile,  'someremote/file/on/server.txt')

or

# Put using string data (in python 3 contents should be bytes)
f.put(None,  'someremote/file/greeting.txt', contents='blah blah blah')

or

# Put a tree on a remote directory (similar to shutil.copytree, without following
# symlinks

f.put_r("Local/tree", "/remote/files/server")

# Return a list the files in a directory
f.list('someremote/folder')
['a.txt', 'b.txt']

f.list('someremote/folder', extra=True)
[{'date': 'Feb 11',
  'datetime': datetime.datetime(2014, 2, 11, 2, 3),
  'directory': 'd',
  'group': '1006',
  'items': '3',
  'name': 'a.txt',
  'owner': '1005',
  'perms': 'rwxr-xr-x',
  'size': '4096',
  'time': '02:03',
  'year': '2014'},
 {'date': 'Feb 11',
  'datetime': datetime.datetime(2014, 2, 11, 2, 35),
  'directory': 'd',
  'group': '1006',
  'items': '3',
  'name': 'b.txt',
  'owner': '1005',
  'perms': 'rwxr-xr-x',
  'size': '4096',
  'time': '02:35',
  'year': '2014'}]

# Change to remote directory
f.cd('someremote/folder')

# Delete a remote file
f.delete('someremote/folder/file.txt')

# Close the connection
f.close()