[Python-Dev] urllib.urlretrieve() and handling 550 errors when reading from FTP (original) (raw)

Brett C. bac at OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Tue Jul 13 02:50:39 CEST 2004

Guido van Rossum wrote:

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If no one has any objections I will just clarify the docs stating that if an attempt to get a file fails on a 550 error (and of course I will say what that means) it will then try a LIST command and if that succeeds that is what is returned. And if you need more fine-grained control then use ftplib.

Sounds good to me. Thanks!

OK, in as rev. 1.53 for Doc/lib/liburllib.tex in the "Restrictions" section. The wording seems fine to me, but after my already glorious email on why test_strptime was faililng, I would appreciate someone else reading and making sure it makes sense. Once people have cleared it for public consumption I will backport it.

-Brett

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