Parameter Passing - String Variable Truncated ?

[Steve Holden]

goldtech wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm passing what I think is a string parameter to another Python
> program (spawn.py)  - see the code snip below. But only the counter
> part gets printed to a log file via  spawn.py. Yet the echo print to
> the output window shows the whole string with the fc part. Better
> explained below I hope, there's the calling .py and the spawn
> script .py:
> ...snip...
> while fc:
>     counter = counter + 1
>     fc_cntr = str(counter) + ' : ' + fc
>     print fc_cntr + '\n'  # Print to Pythonwin interactive window -
> eg. "1 : New York" - all is printed OK
> 
>     arglist = []
>     arglist.append(pythonPath)
>     arglist.append(spawn_script)
>     arglist.append(fc_cntr)  # This gets sent to the spawn_script but
> only "1" gets printed
> 
>     os.spawnv(os.P_WAIT, pythonPath, arglist)
>     fc = fcs.next()
> ...
> --------------------------
> ## the spawn_script
> import win32com.client, sys, os, time, re
> 
> in_featclass = sys.argv[1]

Try

   in_featclass = sys.argv[1:]

to collect all the arguments. At the moment I suspect some shell 
argument processing is intervening, splitting your "N : something" into 
multiple arguments.

> handle = open('C:\\log_file.txt', 'a')
> handle.write(in_featclass + "\n") # ONLY the counter part gets printed
> to the log file!    Why?
> --------------------------
> 
> Thanks, for help.
> 
regards
  Steve
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