Thanks Mike. Would there be an idiom using "is"? somethng like glob.glob('2005*) is not Empty
I have not figured out what to put on the right hand side of "is" I guess, for readability, nothing has come up that seems _great_. One last effort would be to hide the code behind a method, and use something readable to name the method. Thanks also for the link to amaya. The compile is running now :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list