The netrc Module

The netrc module parses .netrc configuration files, as shown in Example 5-18. Such files are used to store FTP usernames and passwords in a user's home directory (don't forget to configure things so that the file can only be read by the user: "chmod 0600 ~/.netrc," in other words).

Example 5-18. Using the netrc Module

File: netrc-example-1.py import netrc # default is $HOME/.netrc info = netrc.netrc("samples/sample.netrc") login, account, password = info.authenticators("secret.fbi") print "login", "=>", repr(login) print "account", "=>", repr(account) print "password", "=>", repr(password) login => 'mulder' account => None password => 'trustno1'