how to(can we ?) pass argument to .py script ?

Simon Brunning simon.brunning at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 10:19:52 EDT 2005


On 11 Oct 2005 07:07:44 -0700, quiteblack at gmail.com
<quiteblack at gmail.com> wrote:
> i wrote a .py file and it works fine, my goal is to pass argument to
> that py file when it get executed, and accept that argument within py
> file, eg. i prefer a command like below:
>
> python test.py -t
>
> and then, i may get "-t" within test.py for later use.
>
> i have no ideas how to do and i'm really stuck, can anyone help ?

Short answer:

import sys
print sys.argv

You might also want to take to butchers at the optparse module.

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Simon B,
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