Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

Other ftplib functions

These are the main ftplib functions we can use to execute ftp operations:

• FTP.getwelcome(): Gets the welcome message
• FTP.mkd(route): Creates a directory; it is passed as an input argument to the route
• FTP.rmd(path): Deletes the directory that we pass
• FTP.delete(file): Deletes the file that we passed as an input parameter
• FTP.pwd(): (Print Working Directory) Returns the current directory where it is located
• FTP.cwd(path): (Change Working Directory) Changes directory
• FTP.dir(path): Returns a list of directories
• FTP.nlst(path): Returns a list with the file names of the directory
• FTP.size(file): Returns the size of the file we passed to it

In this example, we are going to list the versions that are available in the Linux ...