[Tutor] command line arguements

[dman]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 01:51:56AM -0500, Kirk Bailey wrote:
| OK, here ya go. Slightly deeper sorcery time.
...
| how does one tell a python program to pay attention to command line
| data? I can do this in a shell script, and a few other languages, but do
| not yet comprehend it in python.

$ cat args.py

import sys
print sys.argv

$ python args.py
['args.py']

$ python args.py a b c
['args.py', 'a', 'b', 'c']

$ python args.py abc def g
['args.py', 'abc', 'def', 'g']

$ 


Also check out the getopt module for parsing options (eg -o or
--option or --option=value or --option value).

-D