I have a python script that downloads a file over FTP using ftplib.
My current download code looks just like the example in the ftp lib docs:
ftp.retrbinary('RETR README', open('README', 'wb').write)
Now I have a requirement that the file downloaded over FTP needs to have the same last modified time as the file on the FTP server itself. Assuming I could parse out the time from ftp.retrlines('list')
, how can I set the modified time on the downloaded file?
I'm on a unix based OS if that matters.
Use os.utime
:
import os
os.utime(path_to_file, (access_time, modification_time))
More elaborate example: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/os_utime.htm