Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> added the comment: New wording: When known to the interpreter, the script name and additional arguments thereafter are passed to the script in the variable ``sys.argv``, which is a -list of strings. Its length is at least one; when no script and no arguments +list of strings. You have to execute ``import sys`` before you can use that +list. Its length is at least one; when no script and no arguments are given, ``sys.argv[0]`` is an empty string. When the script name is given as ``'-'`` (meaning standard input), ``sys.argv[0]`` is set to ``'-'``. When :option:`-c` *command* is used, ``sys.argv[0]`` is set to ``'-c'``. When ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10559> _______________________________________