Determine if a listing is a directory or file in Python over FTP

Question

Python has a standard library module ftplib to run FTP communications. It has two means of getting a listing of directory contents. One, FTP.nlst()

Answer 1

Unfortunately FTP doesn't have a command to list just folders so parsing the results you get from ftp.dir() would be 'best'.

A simple app assuming a standard result from ls (not a windows ftp)

from ftplib import FTP

ftp = FTP(host, user, passwd)
for r in ftp.dir():
    if r.upper().startswith('D'):
        print r[58:]  # Starting point

Standard FTP Commands

Custom FTP Commands