How do I parse a listing of files to get just the filenames in Python?

Question

So lets say I\'m using Python\'s ftplib to retrieve a list of log files from an FTP server. How would I parse that list of files to get just the file names (the last column) ins

Answer 1

And a slightly less-optimal method, by the way, if you're stuck using retrlines() for some reason, is to pass a function as the second argument to retrlines(); it'll be called for each item in the list. So something like this (assuming you have an FTP object named 'ftp') would work as well:

filenames = []
ftp.retrlines('LIST', lambda line: filenames.append(line.split()[-1]))

The list 'filenames' will then be a list of the file names.