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Nov 27, 2023
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Many companies and organizations use the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) for sharing data. Python provides a File Transfer Protocol module in its standard library called ftplib that implements the client side of the FTP protocol.

You can learn all about the File Transfer Protocol by reading the RFC 959 document online. However, the full specification is ou…

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