On Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:29:19 PM UTC-4, Terry Reedy wrote:
> One can start with a set rather than tuple of file names.
> filenames = {"this.txt", "that.txt", "the_other.txt"}
Yeah, that's even cleaner. Just be aware, the set notation above is only available in (IIRC), 2.7 or above.