newbie question...

[trfilmographer at gmail.com]

On Dec 12, 12:59 pm, r <rt8... at gmail.com> wrote:
> yes, but your script will need to know hoe to handle this.the
> following will open a file who's name was passed to the script
>
> if len(sys.argv) > 1:
>     try:
>         open_file(fname=sys.argv[1])
>     except:
>         pass



ah, ok.  now what if I want the variable to be an integer that I
send?  for instance if I send 99 to the program, it is picking it up
as a string instead of an integer value.  How do I handle this with
python??