SMbHandler Class
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The SMBHandler class provides support for "smb://" URLs in the `urllib2 <http://docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html>`_ python package.
Notes
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* Note that you need to pass in a valid hostname or IP address for the host component of the URL.
Do not use the Windows/NetBIOS machine name for the host component.
* The first component of the path in the URL points to the name of the shared folder.
Subsequent path components will point to the directory/folder of the file.
* You can retrieve and upload files, but you cannot delete files/folders or create folders.
In uploads, if the parent folders do not exist, an *urllib2.URLError* will be raised.
Example
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The following code snippet illustrates file retrieval.::
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import urllib2
from smb.SMBHandler import SMBHandler
director = urllib2.build_opener(SMBHandler)
fh = director.open('smb://myuserID:[email protected]/sharedfolder/rfc1001.txt')
# Process fh like a file-like object and then close it.
fh.close()
# For paths/files with unicode characters, simply pass in the URL as an unicode string
fh2 = director.open(u'smb://myuserID:[email protected]/sharedfolder/测试文件夹/垃圾文件.dat')
# Process fh2 like a file-like object and then close it.
fh2.close()
The following code snippet illustrates file upload. You need to provide a file-like object for the *data* parameter in the *open()* method::
import urllib2
from smb.SMBHandler import SMBHandler
file_fh = open('local_file.dat', 'rb')
director = urllib2.build_opener(SMBHandler)
fh = director.open('smb://myuserID:[email protected]/sharedfolder/upload_file.dat', data = file_fh)
# Reading from fh will only return an empty string
fh.close()