fs.ftpfs

class fs.ftpfs.FTPFS(host='', user='', passwd='', acct='', timeout=<object object>, port=21, dircache=True, follow_symlinks=False)

Connect to a FTP server.

Parameters:

• host – Host to connect to
• user – Username, or a blank string for anonymous
• passwd – Password, if required
• acct – Accounting information (few servers require this)
• timeout – Timeout in seconds
• port – Port to connection (default is 21)
• dircache – If True then directory information will be cached, speeding up operations such as getinfo, isdir, isfile, but changes to the ftp file structure will not be visible until clear_dircache() is called

clear_dircache(*args, **kwargs)

Clear cached directory information.

Parameters:path – Path of directory to clear cache for, or all directories if

None (the default)