> I thought about a possible fix for a while, but in the end decided that the quickest and easiest fix would be to adjust the regular expressio ..... WHAT? Py

> I thought about a possible fix for a while, but in the end decided that the quickest and easiest fix would be to adjust the regular expressio ..... WHAT? Python has a suite of facilities exactly for this very kind of problem. Literally, the solution is "os.path.abspath(filename).startswith(os.path.abspath(dlfolder))" This should, in all cases, return true if the filename is within the download folder directory, and false for any other case.