passing argument to script

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Daniel Nogradi <nogradi at gmail.com> wrote:
>If you execute your script from the command line on Linux you need to
>enclose it in quotation marks otherwise your shell will interfere. So
>you need to invoke your program as
>
>python yourscript.py "ABCE-123456  ABC_DEF_Suggest(abc def ghi).txt"

Same is true on Windows. It's just that some commands magically convert
filenames with spaces into a single argument if you don't quote them.
(Compare, for instance, cd \Program Files with dir \Program Files .)

>and need to refer to the argument as sys.argv[1:][0]

That's an interesting way of spelling sys.argv[1] .

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