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get ncbi ftp listing
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| from ftplib import FTP | |
| host = "ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov" | |
| wdir = "/genomes/refseq/" | |
| ftp = FTP(host, 'anonymous', 'anonymous') | |
| ftp.set_pasv(1) | |
| list = ftp.nlst(wdir) | |
| print len(list) | |
| ftp.quit() |
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