[Pythonmac-SIG] Newbie Q: ARGV

[Just van Rossum]

At 10:23 PM -0400 10-06-2000, John Martin wrote:
>I know this is a stupid q, but I've hit run out of thoughts.  I have a
>script called fred.py that in DOS/Unix expects to be run by typing:
>
>% python fred.py filename
>
>How do I run this on Mac?  Should I be able to just open the IDE and type:
>
>>>>fred.py filename

No.

>or
>
>>>>fred filename

No...

>?  Neither one works.

That's because the Python interactive prompt is no replacement for a
command line.

MacOS (before MacOSX) doesn't have a command line, so you can't do this
directly.

However, you have a couple of options, but none work in the IDE:

1) Drop the script on PythonInterpreter, and press the option key as soon
as you release the mouse button. Click the button "Set unix-style command
line...". Enter your options here, without the name of the script.

2) If all argv needs is a filename (or multiple file names), you can create
an applet for your script by dropping it on BuildApplet. Applets do some
argv emulation: files (or folders) dropped on the applet appear in
sys.argv[1:] (sys.argv[0] being the name of the script, as under unix/dos.)

Just