How to download a file via FTP with Python ftplib

python ftplib
Intekhab Khan picture Intekhab Khan · Jul 20, 2012 · Viewed 123k times · Source

I have the following code which easily connects to the FTP server and opens a zip file. I want to download that file into the local system. How to do that?

# Open the file for writing in binary mode
print 'Opening local file ' + filename
file = open(filename, 'wb')

# Download the file a chunk at a time
# Each chunk is sent to handleDownload
# We append the chunk to the file and then print a '.' for progress
# RETR is an FTP command

print 'Getting ' + filename
ftp.retrbinary('RETR ' + filename, handleDownload)

# Clean up time
print 'Closing file ' + filename
file.close()

Answer

number23_cn picture number23_cn · Jul 20, 2012 
handle = open(path.rstrip("/") + "/" + filename.lstrip("/"), 'wb')
ftp.retrbinary('RETR %s' % filename, handle.write)

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