Fill variable with text of a .txt file at an FTP s

Question

I think my question sounds kinda stupid but I'm pretty new to python programming.

I just want to have a text variable which gets a string from a .txt file at an FTP server.

So in conclusion: There is a .txt File stored at an FTP server and I want to have the content of this file stored in an variable...

This is what I have so far... Can anybody help me? I use Python 3.6.3 :) thanks in advance!

from ftplib import FTP

ftp = FTP('1bk2t.ddns.net')
ftp.login(user='User', passwd = 'Password')

ftp.cwd('/path/')

filename = 'filename.txt'

ftp.retrbinary("RETR " + filename, open(filename, 'wb').write)
ftp.quit()

var = localfile.read

Answer 1

If you want to download a text file contents to memory, without using any temporary file, use retrlines like:

contents = ""
def collectLines(s):
    global contents
    contents += s + "\n"

ftp.retrlines("RETR " + filename, collectLines)

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Or use an array:

lines = []
ftp.retrlines("RETR " + filename, lines.append)