urllib2.urlopen().read().splitlines() opening a directory in a FTP server randomly returns incorrect result

[alanoe]

BPO	22376
Nosy	@terryjreedy, @iritkatriel

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closed_at = <Date 2020-12-01.10:41:25.849>
created_at = <Date 2014-09-09.21:53:40.093>
labels = ['type-bug', 'library']
title = 'urllib2.urlopen().read().splitlines() opening a directory in a FTP server randomly returns incorrect result'
updated_at = <Date 2020-12-01.10:41:25.849>
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priority = 'normal'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue22376'
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[alanoe]

Examples in Python command line:

Try 1
-----

>>> import urllib2
urllib2.urlopen('ftp://<user>:<password>@<server>/packages/repodata').read().splitlines()

Output:
<list of files>

Try 2
-----

>>> import urllib2
urllib2.urlopen('ftp://<user>:<password>@<server>/packages/repodata').read().splitlines()

Output:
[]

If I split urllib2.urlopen().read().splitlines() statement in 2 statements (urllib2.urlopen() and read().splitlines()), I always get correct results.

import urllib2
a = urllib2.urlopen('ftp://<user>:<password>@<server>/packages/repodata')
>>> a.read().splitlines()

Output:
<file_list>

Verified in Python 2.6.6 in RHEL 6.4, Python 2.7.x in RHEL 7 and Python 2.7.3 in Ubuntu 14.04

[alanoe]

duplicate of bpo-22375. I closed that one because I wanted to edit the original bug description and I could not, preferred to create a new bug.

R. David Murray's comment in bpo-22375: "I think this was already fixed in bpo-15002"

[terryjreedy]

You should have just added a new message to bpo-22375 with the revision.

bpo-15002 ends with "This is fixed in 3.4 and 3.5. I will backport to 2.7 ( I think, it is worth it)." Please check whether the backport has been done or whether current you still have a problem with the latest 2.7.8. If so, did the 3.4 patch, included in 3.4.1, fix the issue (ie, install 3.4.1 and test). If you code works on 3.4.1 and not on 2.7.8, you could add a request for a backport to bpo-15002.

[iritkatriel]

2.7 backport is no longer possible.