How to download file from ftp?

Question

I'm scripting an install script in python.

How do I download file from ftp in python?

Operating system -- Windows XP - if that makes a difference.

Answer 1

from urllib2 import urlopen
req = urlopen('ftp://ftp.gnu.org/README')

Then you can use req.read() to load the file content into a variable or do anything else with it, or shutil.copyfileobj to save the content to a disk without loading it to memory.