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Author	pitrou
Recipients	alejolp, facundobatista, giampaolo.rodola, gregory.p.smith, pablomouzo, pitrou
Date	2009-10-20.21:23:42
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In-reply-to	<1256057441.06.0.681834344356.issue6845@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> I think that a non-digit REST argument is an error. But I've tested some > ftp servers and they don't return an error code, they just set REST to 0 > and return some OK code. Finally, ftplib doesn't check that, so if > someone accidentally passes a non-digit argument it could be a difficult > bug to spot. What I mean is that integer arguments should be accepted as well, since that's what is logical to produce.

> I think that a non-digit REST argument is an error. But I've tested some
> ftp servers and they don't return an error code, they just set REST to 0
> and return some OK code. Finally, ftplib doesn't check that, so if
> someone accidentally passes a non-digit argument it could be a difficult
> bug to spot.

What I mean is that integer arguments should be accepted as well, since
that's what is logical to produce.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-10-20 21:23:43	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, facundobatista, gregory.p.smith, giampaolo.rodola, alejolp, pablomouzo
2009-10-20 21:23:42	pitrou	link	issue6845 messages
2009-10-20 21:23:42	pitrou	create