pywws.Upload

Upload files to a web server by ftp or copy them to a local directory

usage: python -m pywws.Upload [options] data_dir file [file...]
options are:
 -h or --help    display this help
data_dir is the root directory of the weather data
file is a file to be uploaded

Login and ftp site details are read from the weather.ini file in data_dir.

Introduction

This module uploads files to (typically) a website via ftp/sftp or copies files to a local directory (e.g. if you are running pywws on the your web server). Details of the upload destination are stored in the file weather.ini in your data directory. The only way to set these details is to edit the file. Run pywws.Upload once to set the default values, which you can then change. Here is what you’re likely to find when you edit weather.ini:

[ftp]
secure = False
directory = public_html/weather/data/
local site = False
password = secret
site = ftp.username.your_isp.co.uk
user = username

These are, I hope, fairly obvious. The local site option lets you switch from uploading to a remote site to copying to a local site. If you set local site = True then you can delete the secure, site, user and password lines.

directory is the name of a directory in which all the uploaded files will be put. This will depend on the structure of your web site and the sort of host you use. Your hosting provider should be able to tell you what site and user details to use. You should have already chosen a password.

The secure option lets you switch from normal ftp to sftp (ftp over ssh). Some hosting providers offer this as a more secure upload mechanism, so you should probably use it if available.

Detailed API

Functions

main([argv])

Classes

Upload(params)
class pywws.Upload.Upload(params)[broncode]
connect()[broncode]
upload_file(file)[broncode]
disconnect()[broncode]
upload(files)[broncode]
pywws.Upload.main(argv=None)[broncode]

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