gosh i could even use other string methods like startswith to take all the files in a given directory which i have organized with a prefix and have them stuffed in different lists ... i think ... snd_filelist = [f for f in os.listdir('/Users/foo/snd') if f.endswith('.aif') & f.startswith('r')] \m/ (>.<) \m/ yeah! runnin' to the interpreta now...