[Twisted-Python] How to setup a ftpserver, ftpclient?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 10:20 AM, Andrew Bennetts wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:05:06PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:55:14PM +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:20:06PM -0400, Michael Bacarella wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:22:47AM +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Good question.  Probably not a huge amount.  The 
>>> FTPFileListingProtocol
>>> could probably be taught to write as well as read; and perhaps the
>> [...]
>>
>> I have code for this, non-twisted specific. I'm interested in 
>> supporting
>> this in conjunction with a few other useful utility modules, so any
>> changes/suggestions etc are welcome.
>
> Certainly the writing (or "unparsing" as you call it :) part of this 
> could
> be used.
>
> The parsing bits also look useful, especially the date parsing.
> Unfortunately, strptime isn't portable (in particular, I don't think 
> Windows
> has it :( ).  But you're using some module called "strptime" -- that's 
> not
> from the standard library?

I don't believe OS X has strptime, either.  I have no time.strptime 
here, and man doesn't know anything about it.  There is always 
mx.DateTime though :)

>
> I don't think uid/gid should be numeric or translated to local names 
> when
> parsing -- ProFTPD at least returns names, and besides remote uids may 
> not
> match local ones.
>
> Also, I'm curious as to how much more reliable this is at parsing wacky
> formats than the regular expression in
> twisted.protocols.ftp.FTPFileListingProtocol in CVS...
>
> -Andrew.