Python FTP Client Tutorial
FTP or File Transfer Protocol is a common way to transfer files. For FTP, Python has a built in package called ftplib.
There is also a Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) that uses SSH to encrypt the communication. We will focus just on traditional FTP in this guide. For SFTP you can check out the Paramiko package.
In this guide, we will look at some basic operations like:
- Connect and login to an FTP server
- List directories and files
- Upload and download files
Note these examples are all using Python 3.