A little test function called "File Hoover". It's a recursive function that pulls the names of single files out of arbitrarily-nested subdirectories. I'm sure it's already been made thousands of times, but it was good practice. It's also my first "real" Python code! I threw in some basic FTP functions; I'm going to use a similar function to retr…

file_hoover.py

#!/bin/python

## Filename retriever:

import os

def hoover():
    for subdir in os.listdir('.'):
        try:
            os.chdir(str(subdir))
        except:
            print(str(subdir))
            continue

        hoover()

    os.chdir('..')

hoover()

## FTP Functions:


#!/bin/python

import ftplib

ftp = ftplib.FTP('ftp.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk')

ftp.login()

ftp.cwd('/pub/tjucikas/wormdatabase/results-12-06-08/Laura Grundy') ## using this dir as a sort of "root" for our data

print ftp.pwd()  ## ensure connection/directory change was successful