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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: ftputil</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/ftputil.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2008-07-09T10:51:47+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>ftputil</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/9/ftputil/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-07-09T10:51:47+00:00</published><updated>2008-07-09T10:51:47+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/9/ftputil/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/trac/wiki/Documentation#bugs-and-limitations"&gt;ftputil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Python’s built-in ftplib is ridiculously low level, requiring you to send RETR commands and even assemble downloaded chunks yourself using a callback. ftputil looks like a really solid high-level interface to that module with file-like objects and plenty of convenient methods.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ftp"&gt;ftp&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ftplib"&gt;ftplib&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ftputil"&gt;ftputil&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python"&gt;python&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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