Introduction to Python FTP
Introduction
In this tutorial, we will explore how to use FTP with Python to send and receive files from a server over TCP/IP connections.
To make things easier and more abstract, we will be using Python’s ftplib library which provides a range of functionalities that make it easier to work with FTP. We’ll see the implementation for uploading and downloading files from the server, as well as some other cool things that “ftplib” allows us to do.
What is FTP?
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol; it is based on the client-server model architecture and is widely used. It has two channels; a command channel and a data channel. The command channel is used to control the communication and the data channel is used for the actual transmission of files. There’s a wide range of things that you can do using FTP, like moving, downloading, copying files, etc. We will discuss that in a later section, along with the details on how to do it using Python.
Working with FTP in Python
Moving on, you would be happy to know that ftplib is a built-in library that