command line arguments?

[Steve Holden]

<brobbins333 at shaw.ca> wrote in message news:3d5a977e.9834056 at news...
> Is it possible to invoke a Python script with command line arguments
> in the manner of C?
>
>
> Something like this (not in the interactive interpreter):
>
> C:\> python myscript.py arg1 arg2

Yes, using sys.argv. Supposing "myscript.py" reads:

#
# myscript.py
#
import sys
for arg in sys.argv:
    print "Arg", arg

then your run would look as follows:

C:\> python myscript.py arg1 arg2
Arg myscript.py
Arg arg1
Arg arg2

Element zero gets the script name, successive elements get the arguments
they correspond to.

regards
 Steve