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Upload Text to an FTP Server (StringBuilder)

Demonstrates the Chilkat Ftp2.PutFileSb method, which encodes the text in a StringBuilder and uploads it to a remote path. The arguments are the StringBuilder, the charset, whether to include a byte-order mark, and the remote file path.

Background: The text-oriented upload: assemble a document — CSV, config, JSON — in a StringBuilder and the method handles encoding as it writes. The charset governs the bytes actually stored, and the byte-order-mark flag is useful when a consuming Windows application expects a BOM.

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import sys
import chilkat

success = False

#  Demonstrates the Ftp2.PutFileSb method, which encodes the text in a StringBuilder and uploads
#  it to a remote path.  The 1st argument is the StringBuilder, the 2nd is the charset, the 3rd
#  selects whether a byte-order mark is included, and the 4th is the remote file path.

ftp = chilkat.CkFtp2()

ftp.put_Hostname("ftp.example.com")
ftp.put_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.put_Password("myPassword")

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

#  Build the text to upload.
sb = chilkat.CkStringBuilder()
sb.Append("name,quantity\n")
sb.Append("widgets,42\n")

#  Upload as UTF-8 without a byte-order mark.
includeBom = False
success = ftp.PutFileSb(sb,"utf-8",includeBom,"public_html/inventory.csv")
if (success == False):
    print(ftp.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

print("Uploaded text file.")

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