Passing command line arguments when debugging with IDLE

[Bengt Richter]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:43:33 -0500, "Nigel-Fi" <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:

>A newbe question from someone more familiar with devstudio type
>environments...
>
>I have a python program which takes command line arguments and i'd like to
>debug it with IDLE but I cant see how to specify them when I open the py
>file or run it within IDLE.
>
I'd just make a temporary assignment to sys.argv right after the import sys, e.g.,

    import sys
    sys.argv = ['arg0', '-opt', 2, 'etc.']

and then pretend it was set normally. Comment out when ready to run from command line
or other starting method that passes cmd line parameters.

HTH

Regards,
Bengt Richter