Chilkat2-Python

Download an FTP File as Text with a Charset

Demonstrates the Chilkat Ftp2.GetRemoteFileTextC method, which downloads a remote file, decodes the bytes using a named charset, and returns the text. The first argument is the remote filename and the second is the charset. A byte-order mark for the selected encoding is recognized and omitted.

Background: This is the encoding-aware way to read a remote text file: you name the charset (utf-8, iso-8859-1, and so on) so multibyte and accented characters decode correctly, and a leading BOM is stripped automatically. Prefer it over GetRemoteFileTextData whenever the file's encoding is known, which is almost always.

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import sys
import chilkat2

success = False

# Demonstrates the Ftp2.GetRemoteFileTextC method, which downloads a remote file, decodes the
# bytes using a named charset, and returns the text.  The 1st argument is the remote filename
# and the 2nd is the charset.

ftp = chilkat2.Ftp2()

ftp.Hostname = "ftp.example.com"
ftp.Username = "myFtpLogin"

# Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
# from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
ftp.Password = "myPassword"

success = ftp.Connect()
if (success == False):
    print(ftp.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

# Download a UTF-8 text file.  A byte-order mark for the selected encoding is recognized and
# omitted from the returned text.
fileText = ftp.GetRemoteFileTextC("public_html/readme.txt","utf-8")
if (ftp.LastMethodSuccess == False):
    print(ftp.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

print(fileText)

success = ftp.Disconnect()
if (success == False):
    print(ftp.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()