On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:12:16 GMT, Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote: > I think if you change the call to look like: > > threading.Thread(target=run, args=(os.path.join('c:\\', path),)).start() oh i see now. thanks >>> s='sdgdfgdfg' >>> s == (s) True >>> s == (s,) False >>>