[Jython-users] how to do a 'quote' command with ftplib

[Hubert Y. <yos...@da...>]

Hi there,
I'm still having problems doing a 'quote guardian' command.
just to hopefully clear up what I'm trying to do...here's what it looks
like when you are doing a manual ftp.

after you log on...
230 User <user-name> logged in. OSS API enabled.
ftp>
ftp> quote guardian
257 Guardian API enabled.
ftp> 

that is all I am wishing to do.

I have tried
ftpConnection.sendcmd('quote guardian')
ftpConnection.voidcmd('quote guardian')
ftpConnection.putcmd('quote guardian')

all of which returned something in the general lines of 
error_perm: 500 'QUOTE guardian': command not understood.

now I realize that if you do actually give a command that ftp server does
not understand as in 'quote bogusCommand' then it would return an error 500
saying basically what I described above. The weirdness of the whole
situation is that if I do it manually, it always works.

Any ideas how to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance,
Hubert