Create missing directories in ftplib storbinary

Question

I was using pycurl to transfer files over ftp in python. I could create the missing directories automatically on my remote server using:

c.setopt(pycurl.FTP_CREA         


        

Answer 1

I know it's kind of an old post but I just needed this and came up with a very simple function. I'm new to Python so I'd appreciate any feedback.

from ftplib import FTP

ftp = FTP('domain.com', 'username', 'password')

def cdTree(currentDir):
    if currentDir != "":
        try:
            ftp.cwd(currentDir)
        except IOError:
            cdTree("/".join(currentDir.split("/")[:-1]))
            ftp.mkd(currentDir)
            ftp.cwd(currentDir)

Usage example:

cdTree("/this/is/an/example")