Python 2.5 script to connect to FTP and download file

Question

I am sure this has been resolved before but I cannot seem to find a similar Q&A (newbie) Using Windows XP and Python 2.5, I m trying to use a script to connect to an FTP

Answer 1

I can't understand which library are you using. Python standard urllib2 is sufficient:

import urllib2, shutil

ftpfile = urllib2.urlopen("ftp://host.example.com/path/to/file")
localfile = open("/tmp/downloaded", "wb")
shutil.copyfileobj(ftpfile, localfile)

If you need to login (anonymous login isn't sufficient), then specify the credentials inside the url:

urllib2.urlopen("ftp://user:password@host.example.com/rest/of/the/url")