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From Al Lukaszewski, for About.com

Initiating an FTP Connection With Python

Monday October 29, 2007
FTP is used for everything from posting websites to maintaining off-site file stores. As such, FTP remains one of the bedrock protocols of the Internet. Recently, we started a series on building your own FTP client and went so far as importing the ftplib module. In the next step, we now initiate the connection and assign it a filehandle. You can read the guide from the start under the "Networking" section; look for "Building an FTP Client in Python".
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