I want to be able to do something like: myscript.py * -o outputfile
and then have the shell expand the * as usual, perhaps to hundreds of filenames. But as far as I can see, getopt can only get one argument with each option. In the above case, there isn't even an option string before the *, but even if there was, I don't know how to get getopt to give me all the expanded filenames in an option. Help! :) /David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list