Introduction to FTP and ftplib
Let’s discuss File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and how it can be connected to the server, and how we can navigate directories with ftplib.
We'll cover the following...
Overview
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is used by many companies and
organizations for sharing data. Python provides a File Transfer Protocol module in its standard library called ftplib that implements the client side of the FTP protocol. We can learn all about
the File Transfer Protocol by reading the RFC 959 document on the
Internet. However the full specification is outside the scope of this
chapter. Instead we will focus on the following topics:
- Connecting to an FTP server
- Navigating its structure
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