Creating list from retrlines in Python

Question

How exactly would you create a list of the entries in an FTP directory?

This is my code so far:

import ftplib

files = []

my_ftp = ftplib.FTP(HOST)
         


        

Answer 1

A little change to the callback argument and the following should work

line = my_ftp.retrlines("NLST",files.append)

Answer 2

You probably just want to use nlst:

>>> my_ftp.nlst()
['pub', 'etc', 'ports']