thanks Leif. poor question on my part. I had been using
glob.glob(path)==[] and was looking for something more readable, hence os.system('[ -e %s ]' % path ) but that doesn't seem like a good idiom for crossplatform. I thought there may either be a way to escape the wildcards, or an alternative to os.access, or .... any other ideas? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list