[Pythonmac-SIG] droplet?

Anthony M. Ingraldi A.M.INGRALDI@larc.nasa.gov
Fri, 26 Nov 1999 08:22:53 -0500


On 11/25/99 8:50 PM, Dante wrote:

> I'm new to Python and looking for a way to get the path of a file I
> drop on to my python applet.

The file paths of dropped files are available to droplets in sys.argv.  Try
this:

import sys

# the first arg will be the path to the droplet itself.
for arg in sys.argv:
    print arg      

# this is just to keep the console from going away.
sys.stdin.readline()

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