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library seems to be the best way to do an SFTP client in Python.

Here is a good example of set up and usage.

However in connecting to a WS FTP server, I was still hitting some problems.

When I tried to do:

sftp.get(remotepath='setup.py',localpath='setup.py')

I got:

*** IOError: Folder not found: setup.py

and when I tried:

sftp.sftp.get(remotepath='./setup.py',localpath='setup.py')

I got:

*** IOError: [Errno 13] Permission Denied!

It turns out the trick for working with WS FTP Server, you need to reference your files as current_directory/filename. (no idea why!)

So the correct command is:

sftp.sftp.get(remotepath='greg/setup.py',localpath='setup.py')

where greg is my current working directory (yes, even though I’m already in that directory!)