Arguments from the command line

[Alan Gauld]

"aug dawg" <augdawg09 at gmail.com> wrote

> Mercurial is written in Python. I know that commit is a function 
> that
> commits to a repo, but what command does the program use in order to 
> get the
> commit name, like "This is a commit name" (This would make a commit 
> with
> "This is a commit name" as the commit name)

Take a look at the Talking to the User topic in my tutorial which has
a section on reading command line arguments.

Interestingly, most of the queries I get on that section are from GUI 
users
who don't understand the concept of command line arguments! :-)


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Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/