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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:06:29 -0700 (PDT)
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On Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:29:19 PM UTC-4, Terry Reedy wrote:

> One can start with a set rather than tuple of file names.
>          filenames = {"this.txt", "that.txt", "the_other.txt"}

Yeah, that's even cleaner.  Just be aware, the set notation above is only available in (IIRC), 2.7 or above.