file handling in a server (.py) file using xmlrpc

[uwb]

I've got a call to glob in a .py file sitting in an apache cgi-bin directory
which refuses to work while the exact same code works from a python console
session.

I'm guessing that in order to read or write files from any sort of a script
file sitting in the cgi-bin directory on a server, something has to be set
to allow such activity.  I'd appreciate it if anybody with as clue as to
what that was could tell me about it.