Check status of ftp file transfer in python

Question

I trying to analize some file that come through a ftp transfer from many clients to my server (pc). So, I'm constantly getting a list o files using

for dirpath, _, filenames in walk(directoryPath):
    for filename in [f for f in filenames if f.endswith(".jpg")]:
        files.append(path.join(dirpath, filename))
return files

Because this is running much faster than the file transfer, the script try to open the image, throwing an exception, and I omit it until no more exceptions get throwed. But even there the analysis fail.

I know that my analysis code works because this only occur with new files, and no with the ones that was there on first run.

I use

os.access()

To get the file status, but this only give me the permissions, and no if some process are currently writing data on it.

Maybe but, in my specific case, my solution is much simpler that go through to the proc directory on Linux — Jose Truyol, Jun 15 '17 at 02:14

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 15 '17 at 02:13

I actually found a solution. I'm using proftpd in Ubuntu, and it have a configuration when can add a sufix and/or prefix to the filename when is still on transfer, and then rename it to the original name.

I just had to ignore all file with the prefix or sufix. With this I guarantee that I open the file when is complete.

Check status of ftp file transfer in python

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