diff --git a/troggle/expo/fileAbstraction.py b/troggle/expo/fileAbstraction.py
index deb1a4a68..a14eceb28 100644
--- a/troggle/expo/fileAbstraction.py
+++ b/troggle/expo/fileAbstraction.py
@@ -1,25 +1,32 @@
-import troggle.settings as settings
-import os
-
-def urljoin(x, y): return x + "/" + y
-
-def listdir(*path):
-    try:
-        l = ""
-        root = os.path.join(settings.FILES, *path)
-        for p in os.listdir(root):
-            if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(root, p)):
-                l += p + "/\n"
-            elif os.path.isfile(os.path.join(root, p)):
-                l += p + "\n"
-            #Ignore non-files and non-directories
-        return l
-    except:
-        return urllib.urlopen(settings.FILES + "listdir/" + reduce(urljoin, path))
-
-def readFile(*path):
-    try:
-        f = open(os.path.join(settings.FILES, *path))
-    except:
-        f = urllib.urlopen(settings.FILES + "download/" + reduce(urljoin, path))
+import troggle.settings as settings
+import os
+import urllib
+
+def urljoin(x, y): return x + "/" + y
+
+def listdir(*path):
+    try:
+        strippedpath = [p for p in path if p]
+        root = os.path.join(settings.FILES, *strippedpath )
+        l = ""
+        #l = root + "\n"
+        #isdir = os.path.isdir(root)
+        #l += str(isdir) + "\n"
+        for p in os.listdir(root):
+            if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(root, p)):
+                l += p + "/\n"
+                
+            elif os.path.isfile(os.path.join(root, p)):
+                l += p + "\n"
+            #Ignore non-files and non-directories
+        return l
+    except:
+        return urllib.urlopen(settings.FILES + "listdir/" + reduce(urljoin, strippedpath))
+
+
+def readFile(*path):
+    try:
+        f = open(os.path.join(settings.FILES, *path))
+    except:
+        f = urllib.urlopen(settings.FILES + "download/" + reduce(urljoin, path))
     return f.read()
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