passing vars to py scipts in cron jobs

[Noud Aldenhoven]

On 8/7/07, Will Maier <willmaier at ml1.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 05:45:46PM -0400, brad wrote:
> > What's the proper way to call a py script and pass in variables
> > while doing cron jobs? I can run the scripts fine from idle,
> > python, etc using raw_input() to prompt users. The scripts have
> > classes with methods that need arguments.
>
> This is commonly done with either sys.argv (a list of arguments
> passed when invoking the script) or os.environ (a dictionary of
> environment variables and values). Use either to instantiate your
> classes or run functions.



You might also want to look at the function getopt <
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-getopt.html>.
It's used to parse the variables in sys.argv which makes it (in my opinion)
more user friendly.

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