diff --git a/osc/commandline.py b/osc/commandline.py
index 30c22fc6..66d86f21 100755
--- a/osc/commandline.py
+++ b/osc/commandline.py
@@ -129,9 +129,7 @@ class Osc(cmdln.Cmdln):
             conf.add_section(e.file, e.url, user, passwd)
             if try_again: self.postoptparse(try_again = False)
 
-        self.conf = conf
         self.options.verbose = conf.config['verbose']
-        conf.exclude_glob = conf.config['exclude_glob'].split()
 
 
     def get_cmd_help(self, cmdname):
@@ -225,8 +223,11 @@ class Osc(cmdln.Cmdln):
         """
 
         args = slash_split(args)
-        if (subcmd == 'll'): opts.verbose = True;
-        if (subcmd == 'lL' or subcmd == 'LL'): opts.verbose = True; opts.expand = True;
+        if subcmd == 'll':
+            opts.verbose = True
+        if subcmd == 'lL' or subcmd == 'LL':
+            opts.verbose = True
+            opts.expand = True
 
         if len(args) == 1:
             project = args[0]
@@ -1224,14 +1225,14 @@ Please submit there instead, or use --nodevelproject to force direct submission.
         ${cmd_option_list}
         """
 
-        if (subcmd == 'branch_co' or subcmd == 'branchco' or subcmd == 'bco'): opts.checkout = True
+        if subcmd == 'branch_co' or subcmd == 'branchco' or subcmd == 'bco': opts.checkout = True
         args = slash_split(args)
         tproject = tpackage = None
 
-        if (len(args) == 1):
-            print >>sys.stderr, "defaulting to %s/%s" % (conf.config['branch_project'],args[0])
+        if len(args) == 1:
+            print >>sys.stderr, 'defaulting to %s/%s' % (conf.config['branch_project'], args[0])
             # python has no args.unshift ???
-            args = [ conf.config['branch_project'] , args[0] ]
+            args = [ conf.config['branch_project'], args[0] ]
 
 
         if not (len(args) >= 2 and len(args) <= 4):
diff --git a/osc/conf.py b/osc/conf.py
index 62c27ef2..bb128565 100644
--- a/osc/conf.py
+++ b/osc/conf.py
@@ -440,6 +440,7 @@ def get_config(override_conffile = None,
             raise oscerr.ConfigError('cannot parse \'%s\' setting: ' % i + str(e), conffile)
 
     config['packagecachedir'] = os.path.expanduser(config['packagecachedir'])
+    config['exclude_glob'] = config['exclude_glob'].split()
 
     re_clist = re.compile('[, ]+')
     config['extra-pkgs'] = [ i.strip() for i in re_clist.split(config['extra-pkgs'].strip()) if i ]
diff --git a/osc/core.py b/osc/core.py
index 8b854bb7..dbdbfd30 100755
--- a/osc/core.py
+++ b/osc/core.py
@@ -283,8 +283,8 @@ class Project:
         if conf.config['do_package_tracking']:
             self.pac_root = self.read_packages().getroot()
             self.pacs_have = [ pac.get('name') for pac in self.pac_root.findall('package') ]
-            self.pacs_excluded = [ i for i in os.listdir(self.dir) 
-                                   for j in conf.exclude_glob 
+            self.pacs_excluded = [ i for i in os.listdir(self.dir)
+                                   for j in conf.config['exclude_glob']
                                    if fnmatch.fnmatch(i, j) ]
             self.pacs_unvers = [ i for i in os.listdir(self.dir) if i not in self.pacs_have and i not in self.pacs_excluded ]
             # store all broken packages (e.g. packages which where removed by a non-osc cmd)
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ class Project:
 
     def addPackage(self, pac):
         import fnmatch
-        for i in conf.exclude_glob:
+        for i in conf.config['exclude_glob']:
             if fnmatch.fnmatch(pac, i):
                 return False
         state = self.get_state(pac)
@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ class Package:
 
         # gather unversioned files, but ignore some stuff
         self.excluded = [ i for i in os.listdir(self.dir) 
-                          for j in conf.exclude_glob 
+                          for j in conf.config['exclude_glob']
                           if fnmatch.fnmatch(i, j) ]
         self.filenamelist_unvers = [ i for i in os.listdir(self.dir)
                                      if i not in self.excluded