Gary Taylor wrote:
> I'm trying to pass the name of a file as the first argument
> to the ftp.storbinary function(?) below. The only thing I
> can get to work is the real file name hard coded as the
> argument. I've tried parenthesis, single quotes, double
> quotes, and many combinations of the previous. I've tried
> passing sys.argv[1] directly as well, although with fewer
> experiments.
>
> I invoke this as below and the output is what I would
> expect, but the file name on the ftp server is never
> correct.
>
>
> What is the correct way to do this?
>
>
> $ ./garyftp.py align.ps
> align.ps
>
>
>
> ---
> Python 2.3.4 on Linux.
>
>
> ---
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import sys
> from ftplib import FTP
>
> file_to_transfer = sys.argv[1]
>
> ftp = FTP()
> ftp.connect("myserver")
> ftp.login("myusername", "mypasswd")
>
>
> ftp.storbinary(stor file_to_transfer, open(file_to_transfer,"r"))
You need to create the command as a string:
ftp.storbinary("stor " + file_to_transfer, open(file_to_transfer,"r"))
Kent
>
> print file_to_transfer
> ftp.quit()
> --
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
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