Executing a python script with arguments from a python script

[James Stroud]

Larry Bates wrote:
> You can pass arguments into a python script, see getopt module.
> Then to call an external script you would use subsystem module
> (or os.system if you are on earlier version of python).

I think getopt is a little dated. Try optparse. To quote the python 
documentation, it is a "More powerful command line option parser".

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-optparse.html

James