Downloading text files with Python and ftplib.FTP from z/os

Question

I\'m trying to automate downloading of some text files from a z/os PDS, using Python and ftplib.

Since the host files are EBCDIC, I can\'t simply use FTP.retrbinary(

Answer 1

Use retrlines of ftplib to download file from z/os, each line has no '\n'.

It's different from windows ftp command 'get xxx'.

We can rewrite the function 'retrlines' to 'retrlines_zos' in ftplib.py.

Just copy the whole code of retrlines, and chane the 'callback' line to:

...

callback(line + "\n")

...

I tested and it worked.