downloading files with Python through FTP

Question

I can think of three ways to download a file from an ftp:// address from python: using urllib (or urllib2 ), using ftplib , or by making an os.system call to a common program like wget . Assume that I am trying to do this only on unix systems. Are there strong reasons to prefer one method over the other? In particular, urllib versus ftplib ? urllib seems much simpler to use. thanks.

Answer 1

its pretty easy to download ftp file using python check the python doc: http://docs.python.org/library/ftplib.html

btw somebody already asked that here: How to download file from ftp?