if callfunc == 'initialize': for filename in callargs: # callargs has all of the command line arguments in it. # just like python's open() function myfileobject = open(filename,"w") # we also could have used myfileobject.write("hello world\n") print >> myfileobject, "hello world" myfileobject.close() # now we'll go through and print the files in this directory # (it may include things other than our files). print listdir() for filename in callargs: # let's remove our files now... removefile(filename) print "The files:",callargs," should now be missing from ",listdir()