newbie question structure of function

[nodrogbrown]

> > >     resultname="""
> > > That starts a string literal.
>
> i am not sure if this is the right way..i used it in case
> matchdistance < threshold return False.then the filename will not be
> taken from the filenameslist and so returns as an empty string.
>a one-tuple


why not use None instead?

if (matchdistance < threshold):
       resultname=filenameslist[index]
else:
       resultname=None

will that not be better?
gordon