How to download a file via FTP with Python ftplib

Question

I have the following code which easily connects to the FTP server and opens a zip file. I want to download that file into the local system. How to do that?

# Open the file for writing in binary mode print 'Opening local file ' + filename file = open(filename, 'wb')  # Download the file a chunk at a time # Each chunk is sent to handleDownload # We append the chunk to the file and then print a '.' for progress # RETR is an FTP command  print 'Getting ' + filename ftp.retrbinary('RETR ' + filename, handleDownload)  # Clean up time print 'Closing file ' + filename file.close() 

Answer 1

handle = open(path.rstrip("/") + "/" + filename.lstrip("/"), 'wb') ftp.retrbinary('RETR %s' % filename, handle.write) 

Answer 2

A = filename  ftp = ftplib.FTP("IP") ftp.login("USR Name", "Pass") ftp.cwd("/Dir")   try:     ftp.retrbinary("RETR " + filename ,open(A, 'wb').write) except:     print "Error"