[Tutor] Arguments from the command line

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mailman.599.1284008342.29448.python-list at python.org>, Dennis Lee 
Bieber wrote:

> None of them have command line arguments "passed" in to some
> starting point -- all had to use some runtime library function to ask
> for the command line contents.

It’s always a language-specific routine, since at the underlying POSIX level 
(exposed by C), the command line is passed as arguments to the mainline 
routine.