Similarly to issue 3972 the patch in attachment adds a new "source_address" option to FTP class to bind to a specific address when connecting to a remote FTP server.

It must be noted that this gets done for both control and passive data connections (client connecting to server). The latter one solves issue 1661754.

You should not use find_unused_port(), because it causes problems on some Windows buildbot. Also, there's something fishy in your patch, because you never set self.source_address.

> You should not use find_unused_port()

I agree find_unused_port() is the wrong approach in general, but in this case I think there's nothing we can do about it.

> you never set self.source_address.

You're right, I should set it in connect() method.
I'm going to attach a new patch including documentation.

Patch in attachment set source_address attribute and updates doc.
It still keeps using support.find_unused_port() which is also used in test_socket.py though [1], so it shouldn't cause problems.

http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/test/test_socket.py?r1=77263&r2=77262&pathrev=77263

Committed in r88679.

test_source_address_passive_connection() raises a ResourceWarning. Fix attached.

Thanks. Committed in r88761.

Giampaolo, can you make your commit on the Mercurial repo instead?

See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/108738.html

Committed in r68309.

Ok, that wasn't r68309. =)
I'm not sure what revision number is now that we're using mercurial.

I'm not seeing the commit anywhere. Did you perhaps forget to "hg push" after committing?

New changeset 7f605fa1688d by Giampaolo Rodol�� in branch 'default':
#8594: fix ResourceWarning in test_ftplib.py - patch by Nadeem Vawda.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/7f605fa1688d