Directory transfers with Paramiko

Question

How do you use Paramiko to transfer complete directories? I'm trying to use:

sftp.put("/Folder1","/Folder2") 

which is giving me this error -

Error : [Errno 21] Is a directory

Answer 1

You can subclass paramiko.SFTPClient and add the following method to it:

import paramiko import os  class MySFTPClient(paramiko.SFTPClient):     def put_dir(self, source, target):         ''' Uploads the contents of the source directory to the target path. The             target directory needs to exists. All subdirectories in source are              created under target.         '''         for item in os.listdir(source):             if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(source, item)):                 self.put(os.path.join(source, item), '%s/%s' % (target, item))             else:                 self.mkdir('%s/%s' % (target, item), ignore_existing=True)                 self.put_dir(os.path.join(source, item), '%s/%s' % (target, item))      def mkdir(self, path, mode=511, ignore_existing=False):         ''' Augments mkdir by adding an option to not fail if the folder exists  '''         try:             super(MySFTPClient, self).mkdir(path, mode)         except IOError:             if ignore_existing:                 pass             else:                 raise 

To use it:

transport = paramiko.Transport((HOST, PORT)) transport.connect(username=USERNAME, password=PASSWORD) sftp = MySFTPClient.from_transport(transport) sftp.mkdir(target_path, ignore_existing=True) sftp.put_dir(source_path, target_path) sftp.close()