I’m working on a project that needs solid performance.

I need to analyze the contents of an FTP folder (and its sub-folders) with a single FTP request (to avoid making a call per file, which I could do with ftp_host.stat(file_path)).

For each folder, I need to retrieve :

• The file/folder name (and whether it’s a folder or a file)
• File size
• The file’s last modification date

I’m working with ftputil in Python. The framework I’m working in requires this information (I can’t use download_if_newer()). I tried with the code:

ftp_host._dir(folder)

This code returns almost everything I need in this line:

-rw-r--r-- 1 test ftpusers 37 Aug 13 09:37 fruits.csv

who gives me this information:

• leading - indicates that it’s a file (d for directory)
• 37 is the size
• and fruits.csv is the name

However, the date is incomplete: I only get Aug 13 09:37. The year is missing.

Is there a solution for retrieving the year as well?