ftputil is a high-level alternative to Python's ftplib module. With ftputil, you can access directories and files on remote FTP servers almost as if they were in your local file system. This includes using file-like objects representing remote files.
From version 1.1 to 2.0, the following has changed:
The documentation for ftputil can be found in the file ftputil.txt (reStructured Text format) or ftputil.html (recommended, generated from ftputil.txt).
To use ftputil, you need Python, at least version 2.0. Python is a programming language, available from http://www.python.org for free.
If you have an older version of ftputil installed, delete it or move it somewhere else, so that it doesn't conflict with the new version!
Unpack the archive file containing the distribution files. If you had an hypothetical ftputil version 1.2, you would type at the shell prompt:
tar xzf ftputil-1.2.tar.gz
However, if you read this, you probably unpacked the archive already. ;-)
Make the directory to where the files were unpacked your current directory. Consider that after unpacking, you have a directory ftputil-1.2. Make it the current directory with
cd ftputil-1.2
Type
python setup.py install
at the shell prompt. On Unix/Linux, you have to be root to perform the installation. Likewise, you have to be logged in as administrator if you install on Windows.
If you want to customize the installation paths, please read http://www.python.org/doc/current/inst/inst.html .
ftputil is Open Source Software. It is distributed under a BSD-style license (see the top of ftputil.py).
Stefan Schwarzer <sschwarzer@sschwarzer.net>
Please provide feedback! It's surely appreciated. :-)