# HG changeset patch
# User matt-shirley
# Date 1352863933 18000
# Node ID aa7ab53c53bfeb9239c8964546165654f3d805fa
# Parent  abdb4762ebcb65ce11f4bff58daba8891948d285
Started working on the python FTP script.

diff -r abdb4762ebcb -r aa7ab53c53bf sra_fetch.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/sra_fetch.py	Tue Nov 13 22:32:13 2012 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+from ftplib import FTP
+import os, sys, os.path
+
+# Get accession number from argument
+accession = sys.argv[1]
+prefix = accession[0:2].uppercase()
+middle = accession[3:5]
+suffix = accession[6:8]
+
+ftp = FTP('ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov')
+
+def handleDownload(block):
+    file.write(block)
+    
+ftp.login()
+ftp.cwd('/sra/sra-instant/reads/BySample/sra/