Netrc Class Reference

Public Member Functions
def	__init__
def	get_hosts
def	get_account
def	get_macros
def	get_macro

Detailed Description

Class to parse & provide access to 'netrc' format files.

See the netrc(4) man page for information on the file format.

WARNING: This class is obsolete -- use module netrc instead.

Definition at line 655 of file ftplib.py.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

def __init__	(		self,
			filename = None
	)

Definition at line 667 of file ftplib.py.

References Netrc.__defacct, Netrc.__defpasswd, Netrc.__defuser, Netrc.__hosts, Netrc.__macros, aifc.open(), and log_faction_ships.tuple.

    def __init__(self, filename=None):
        if not filename:
            if os.environ.has_key("HOME"):
                filename = os.path.join(os.environ["HOME"],
                                        ".netrc")
            else:
                raise IOError, \
                      "specify file to load or set $HOME"
        self.__hosts = {}
        self.__macros = {}
        fp = open(filename, "r")
        in_macro = 0
        while 1:
            line = fp.readline()
            if not line: break
            if in_macro and line.strip():
                macro_lines.append(line)
                continue
            elif in_macro:
                self.__macros[macro_name] = tuple(macro_lines)
                in_macro = 0
            words = line.split()
            host = user = passwd = acct = None
            default = 0
            i = 0
            while i < len(words):
                w1 = words[i]
                if i+1 < len(words):
                    w2 = words[i + 1]
                else:
                    w2 = None
                if w1 == 'default':
                    default = 1
                elif w1 == 'machine' and w2:
                    host = w2.lower()
                    i = i + 1
                elif w1 == 'login' and w2:
                    user = w2
                    i = i + 1
                elif w1 == 'password' and w2:
                    passwd = w2
                    i = i + 1
                elif w1 == 'account' and w2:
                    acct = w2
                    i = i + 1
                elif w1 == 'macdef' and w2:
                    macro_name = w2
                    macro_lines = []
                    in_macro = 1
                    break
                i = i + 1
            if default:
                self.__defuser = user or self.__defuser
                self.__defpasswd = passwd or self.__defpasswd
                self.__defacct = acct or self.__defacct
            if host:
                if self.__hosts.has_key(host):
                    ouser, opasswd, oacct = \
                           self.__hosts[host]
                    user = user or ouser
                    passwd = passwd or opasswd
                    acct = acct or oacct
                self.__hosts[host] = user, passwd, acct
        fp.close()