Have you tried the tarfile or zipfile modules? You might need to ugrade your python if you don't have them. They look pretty easy and should make this a snap. You can grab the output from the *nix "file" command using the new subprocess module. Good Luck - Chris ======= PYTHON POWERs all! All your code are belong to Python!
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