This patch must hold the world record for living in my inbox:
From: John Ehresman <jehresma@dsg.harvard.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 16:07:11 -0400
He provided a fix for the version that comes with Python 1.3:
ftpmirror.py revision 1.1... And it was still relevant!
is used), do a recursive delete. Use -r with even more caution!
Also changed usage message into a doc string, added a comment or two,
and rearranged a long line.
removed from .mirrorinfo. Now they are (even if -r is not specified
-- the files are not removed, just their .mirrorinfo entry).
Added a feature: the -s pattern option is also used to skip local
files when removing (i.e. -r won't remove local files matching the -s
patterns).