Upload folders from local system to FTP using Python script

Question

I have to automatically upload folders to an FTP using a Python script. I am able to upload a single file, but not folders with subfolders and files in them. I did a lot of search, but failed. Could some one help me out here? Thanks in advance.

#! /usr/bin/python

import ftplib
s = ftplib.FTP('serverip','usrname','password') 
file = '/home/rock/test.txt'
ftppath = '/IT'
filename = "rak"
s.cwd(ftppath)
f = open(file,'rb')                
s.storbinary('STOR ' + filename, f)         

f.close()                                
s.quit()

Answer 1

I recently came into this problem and figured out a recursive function to solve it.

import ftplib
import os

server = 'localhost'
username = 'generic_user'
password = 'password'
myFTP = ftplib.FTP(server, username, password)
myPath = r'c:\temp'
def uploadThis(path):
    files = os.listdir(path)
    os.chdir(path)
    for f in files:
        if os.path.isfile(path + r'\{}'.format(f)):
            fh = open(f, 'rb')
            myFTP.storbinary('STOR %s' % f, fh)
            fh.close()
        elif os.path.isdir(path + r'\{}'.format(f)):
            myFTP.mkd(f)
            myFTP.cwd(f)
            uploadThis(path + r'\{}'.format(f))
    myFTP.cwd('..')
    os.chdir('..')
uploadThis(myPath) # now call the recursive function