Neil Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > area_name_string = '"*% s*"' % (Area_name) > os.chdir(Input) > filename = glob.glob(area_name_string)
Too many quotation marks. >>> Area_name='Foo' >>> '"*% s*"' % (Area_name) '"*Foo*"' Unless there are files with funny names containing '"' you will not get a match. cu Philipp -- Dr. Philipp Pagel Tel. +49-8161-71 2131 Dept. of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics Fax. +49-8161-71 2186 Technical University of Munich http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list