Change the default encoding for ftplib.FTP to latin1 so that bytes can be in

the range of 255 instead of only 128.

diff --git a/Lib/ftplib.py b/Lib/ftplib.py
index cfc51ba26f85656e54641bafbac9dafab6dd31d3..2df4123a5372d6c9988a4ddb4ae0df50af0ec2a1 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/ftplib.py
+++ b/Lib/ftplib.py
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ class FTP:
     file = None
     welcome = None
     passiveserver = 1
-    encoding = "ASCII"
+    encoding = "latin1"
 
     # Initialization method (called by class instantiation).
     # Initialize host to localhost, port to standard ftp port