Does FTPLIB have a 'local change directory' ?

[python newbie]

Hi, first I wanted to say that:

I have finally been able to ftp a file in my python app - however, it
works like this:

When you use storbinary and hand it a full path
"c:\myfiles\morefiles\picture.gif"..
it will find the file on your hard drive, and
then upload the file, but on the ftp server, it literally names the file:

"c:\myfiles\morefiles\picture.gif"


I'd like to be able to first

ftplib.lcd( "c:\myfiles\morefiles" )

and then just

storbinary( picture.gif .. ).

But the python doc doesn't show any LCD.

Or am I going to have to be satisfied with having to just use a rename on
the server,
after uploading the file?

Thanks
Steve

 

[Robert Kern]

Hi, first I wanted to say that:

I have finally been able to ftp a file in my python app - however, it
works like this:

When you use storbinary and hand it a full path
"c:\myfiles\morefiles\picture.gif"..
it will find the file on your hard drive, and
then upload the file, but on the ftp server, it literally names the file:

"c:\myfiles\morefiles\picture.gif"


I'd like to be able to first

ftplib.lcd( "c:\myfiles\morefiles" )

and then just

storbinary( picture.gif .. ).

But the python doc doesn't show any LCD.

os.chdir()

--
Robert Kern
(e-mail address removed)

"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
-- Richard Harter

 

[jepler]

If you want to change the working directory of a Python program, then use
os.chdir() for that purpose. That's what 'lcd' does in ftp client software.
It doesn't send a remote command of any kind.

Or, when you call the storbinary method, give the os.path.basename() of the
file you are storing, instead of the name you used to open the file on the local
system.

Jeff

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[Dan Sommers]

I'd like to be able to first

ftplib.lcd( "c:\myfiles\morefiles" )

and then just

storbinary( picture.gif .. ).

But the python doc doesn't show any LCD.

Try os.chdir.

HTH,
Dan

 

[Steve Bailey]

Yes, I tried using just the filename itself in using storbinary, but
it returned some kind of error, but your suggestion to use os.chdir is
so obvious I'm not sure why I didn't think of that.
Thanks for the email
Steve