Mastering Python for Networking and Security

Transferring files with FTP

ftplib can be used for transferring files to and from remote machines. The constructor method of the FTP class (method __init __ ()), receives the host, user, and key as parameters, so that passing these parameters during any instance to the FTP saves the use of the connect methods (host, port, timeout) and a login (user, password).

In this screenshot, we can see more information about the FTP class and the parameters of the init method constructor:

To connect, we can do so in several ways. The first is by using the connect() method and the other is through the FTP class constructor.

In this script, we can see ...