I'm not sure I understand your first question but checkout the " glob " module. Sounds like it may help.
Here is how you could get the folders and filenames import os list = os.walk("C:\python24\Tools") for file in list: folderlist = os.path.split(file[0]) print "****************Folder***************" print folderlist[1] print "=====================================" print print "****************Files*****************" print file[2] print "=====================================" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list