Smart_open: Support for reading and writing files directly to/from ftp

[ziky90]

Another feature that I would like to have in smart_open is support for direct reading/writing of the data to/from ftp.

Anyone else interested in this? Does this make sense?

[val314159]

I thought about making a scp interface in the worst possible way, (make a shell command).

[trentgerman]

I'd be interested in seeing the implementation for this. I've used pysftp in the past for such tasks and it is very slow for large files (you're better of with sftp)

[saschalang32]

Is this issue still relevant today? I'd like to work on that if that would be the case :)