Hi all!!! > But in general, filenames can be kept to lower-case and upper-case > characters, numerals and punctuation. You might want to look into the > fnmatch module. > U can avoid by not using names like -anything ^ names containing whitespace (this goes to m$-windoze and mac especially *grrrrrr*) and other special characters all allowed in UNIX but generally a bad idea. grreetings!!