Introduction to FTP and ftplib

Explore how to use Python's ftplib to connect to FTP servers, navigate their directory structure, and perform file uploads and downloads. Learn secure connections with FTP_TLS and manage FTP operations effectively.

We'll cover the following...

Overview
Connecting to an FTP server
Connecting it to server
Using connect method
Navigating directories with ftplib

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
Downloading files from the FTP server
Uploading files to an FTP server

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1.Introduction

2.An Intro to Argument Parsing Using argparse

3.The Collections Module

4.Context Managers

5.The Functools Module

6.All About Imports

7.The importlib Module

8.Iterators and Generators

9.The Itertools Module

10.Regular Expressions

Mini Project

11.The Typing Module

12.Python Built-ins

13.Unicode

14.Benchmarking

15.Encryption and Cryptography

16.Databases

Mini Project

17.The Super Built-in

18.Descriptors

19.Scope

20.Web Scraping

21.Web APIs

22.Working with FTP

23.The urllib Module

24.The doctest Module

25.The unittest Module

26.The mock Module

27.An Intro to coverage.py

28.The asyncio Module

29.The Threading Module

30.The Multiprocessing Module

31.The concurrent.futures Module

Mini Project

32.Wrapping Up

Introduction to FTP and ftplib

Overview