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 d2ff435..eee8e5a 100644
--- a/Lib/ftplib.py
+++ b/Lib/ftplib.py
@@ -437,6 +437,8 @@
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)