No need to apologize for continuing to waste your time, self.plonk. Get a life, though, and you'll be happier.
As to your question, well, not before you apologize for thread crapping. As for your possible solutions, if you consider any of yours to be "readable", then i have no interest in coding with you. And for if glob.glob(path): I had already posted that work around. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list