Python script to upload various files to fileserve with FTP.

ftpFileserveUploader.py

# Copyright (c) 2011, Xabier (slok) Larrakoetxea
# Copyright (c) 2011, Iraide (Sharem) Diaz
#
# 3 clause/New BSD license: 
#   opensource: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
#   wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses
#
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
# This script  allows to upload to Fileserve with FTP various files at the same time
#
# Use:
#   python ./ftpFilserveUploader.py ./Downloads/xxx.y ./yyyy.z  /home/xxx/yyyy.zz
#
from ftplib import FTP
import sys

########### MODIFY ########################

USER = 'xxxxxx'
PASS = 'xxxxxxxxx'

########### MODIFY IF YOU WANT ############

SERVER = 'ftp.fileserve.com'
PORT = 21
BINARY_STORE = True # if False then line store (not valid for binary files (videos, music, photos...))

###########################################

def print_line(result):
    print(result)

def connect_ftp():
    #Connect to the server
    ftp = FTP()
    ftp.connect(SERVER, PORT)
    ftp.login(USER, PASS)
    
    return ftp

def upload_file(ftp_connetion, upload_file_path):

    #Open the file
    try:
        upload_file = open(upload_file_path, 'r')
        
        #get the name
        path_split = upload_file_path.split('/')
        final_file_name = path_split[len(path_split)-1]
    
        #transfer the file
        print('Uploading ' + final_file_name + '...')
        
        if BINARY_STORE:
            ftp_connetion.storbinary('STOR '+ final_file_name, upload_file)
        else:
            #ftp_connetion.storlines('STOR ' + final_file_name, upload_file, print_line)
            ftp_connetion.storlines('STOR '+ final_file_name, upload_file)
            
        print('Upload finished.')
        
    except IOError:
        print ("No such file or directory... passing to next file")

    
#Take all the files and upload all
ftp_conn = connect_ftp()

for arg in sys.argv:
    upload_file(ftp_conn, arg)

Getting error,

500 Syntax error, command unrecognized.