Python: Reading Ftp file list with UTF-8?

Question

Hi I am using module ftplib. And list my files with this code:

files=[]
files = ftp.nlst()

And write them to text file with this code:

for item in files:
    filenames.write(item +'\n')

But there is an encoding problem that if my file name has 'ı,ğ,ş' characters, It cant read this and writes to file with '?' instead.

How can read them properly?

Answer 1

Python 3.x is using default encoding ISO-8859-1 for file name.

To use UTF-8 encoding for file name with the server, you need to add the following line:

ftpConnector = ftplib.FTP(host,user,password) # connection

ftpConnector.encoding='utf-8' #force encoding for file name in utf-8 rather than default that is iso-8889-1

then you can use:

ftpConnector.storbinary( 'STOR '+fileName, file) # filename will be utf-8 encoded

Answer 2

You need to convert the resulting items back to unicode before writing the items to file. The ftp module does not support unicode strings. To do this try:

import encodings.idna

for item in files:
    filenames.write(encodings.idna.ToUnicode(item) + '\n')

Answer 3

ftp.encoding='utf-8'
ftp.sendcmd('OPTS UTF8 ON')