what have you tried so far?

anyway, you can look up the manuals of some of these tools
- os.walk
- glob
- shutil
- os.path.splitext

to achieve what you need

I have tried the above

For example

The path and file's could be simliar

Ex: C:\Lotus\Notes\Data\mail*\*

mail could be any number from mail 1 - 100 and whatever files that follow.

Ex: C:\Lotus\Notes\Data\mail10\myname.nsf

I just need to be able to back up myname.nsf -- Please help - would like to get this project done in Python.

ParE

i think this will help you out, this is not the exact solution of your problem, but now you can find yourself.please indent it yourself, i am unable to indent in message box.
code:
import os
def directoryWalker( unused, dirName, nameList ):
print "Entering new directory: " + dirName
filename = raw_input("Enter file name : ")
if filename in nameList:
print "file is present"
print " " + os.path.join( dirName, filename )
print " "
else:
print "file is not here"

if __name__ == '__main__':
os.path.walk( os.curdir, directoryWalker, None )
raw_input( '\n\nPress Enter to exit...' )