From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:51:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Patches by Michael Reilly to correctly deal with ftp URLs of the form
X-Git-Tag: v1.6a1~1001
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1ebcf6aabb357de166f226d1355baefc541950e9;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Patches by Michael Reilly to correctly deal with ftp URLs of the form
ftp://user@host//root/path: the double slash in the pathname means to
go to the root directory even if the initial directory isn't the root.
---

diff --git a/Lib/ftplib.py b/Lib/ftplib.py
index d2ff43570042..eee8e5a82650 100644
--- a/Lib/ftplib.py
+++ b/Lib/ftplib.py
@@ -437,6 +437,8 @@ class FTP:
 			except error_perm, msg:
 				if msg[:3] != '500':
 					raise error_perm, msg
+		elif dirname == '':
+			dirname = '.'  # does nothing, but could return error
 		cmd = 'CWD ' + dirname
 		return self.voidcmd(cmd)