Python ftplib - uploading multiple files?

Question

I've googled but I could only find how to upload one file... and I'm trying to upload all files from local directory to remote ftp directory. Any ideas how to achieve this?

Answer 1

with the loop?

edit: in universal case uploading only files would look like this:

import os
for root, dirs, files in os.walk('path/to/local/dir'):
    for fname in files:
        full_fname = os.path.join(root, fname)
        ftp.storebinary('STOR remote/dir' + fname, open(full_fname, 'rb'))

Obviously, you need to look out for name collisions if you're just preserving file names like this.

Answer 2

Create a FTP batch file (with a list of files that you need to transfer). Use python to execute ftp.exe with the "-s" option and pass in the list of files.

This is kludgy but apparently the FTPlib does not have accept multiple files in its STOR command.

Here is a sample ftp batch file.

*

OPEN inetxxx 
myuser mypasswd 
binary 
prompt off 
cd ~/my_reg/cronjobs/k_load/incoming 
mput *.csv 
bye

• If the above contents were in a file called "abc.ftp" - then my ftp command would be

  ftp -s abc.ftp

Hope that helps.