[ANN] ftputil 1.0 - a higher level interface for FTP sessions

[Stefan Schwarzer]

Hello Pythoneers :)

I would like to announce ftputil.py, a module which provides a
more friendly interface for FTP sessions than the ftplib module.

The FTPHost objects generated from it allow many operations similar
to those of os and os.path. Examples:

# download some files from the login directory
import ftputil
host = ftputil.FTPHost('ftp.domain.com', 'user', 'secret')
names = host.listdir(host.curdir)
for name in names:
if host.path.isreg(name):
host.download(name, name, 'b') # remote, local, binary mode

# make a new directory and copy a remote file into it
host.mkdir('newdir')
source = host.file('index.html', 'r') # file-like object
target = host.file('newdir/index.html', 'w') # file-like object
host.copyfileobj(source, target) # mimics shutil.copyfileobj
source.close()
target.close()

Even host.path.walk works. :-) But slow. ;-)

ftputil.py can be downloaded from
http://www.ndh.net/home/sschwarzer/download/ftputil.py

I would like to get your suggestions and comments. :-)

Stefan

P.S.: Thanks to Pedro Rodriguez for his helpful answer to my question
in comp.lang.python :-)