Create missing directories in ftplib storbinary
ftplib, pycurl, python
Solution
FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS is a curl operation (added here). I'd hazard a guess that you have to do it manually with ftplib, but I'd love to be proven wrong, anyone?
I'd do something like the following: (untested, and need to catch `ftplib.all_errors`)
ftp = ... # Create connection
# Change directories - create if it doesn't exist
def chdir(dir):
if directory_exists(dir) is False: # (or negate, whatever you prefer for readability)
ftp.mkd(dir)
ftp.cwd(dir)
# Check if directory exists (in current location)
def directory_exists(dir):
filelist = []
ftp.retrlines('LIST',filelist.append)
for f in filelist:
if f.split()[-1] == dir and f.upper().startswith('D'):
return True
return False
Or you could do `directory_exists` like this: (a bit harder to read?)
# Check if directory exists (in current location)
def directory_exists(dir):
filelist = []
ftp.retrlines('LIST',filelist.append)
return any(f.split()[-1] == dir and f.upper().startswith('D') for f in filelist)
Problem
I was using pycurl to transfer files over ftp in python. I could create the missing directories automatically on my remote server using: ``` c.setopt(pycurl.FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS, 1) ``` for some reasons, I have to switch to ftplib. But I don't know how to to the same here. Is there any option to add to storbinary function to do that? or I have to create the directories manually?