[Tutor] Command line arguments passing

[Alan Gauld]

> My question is: when invoking a program with, let's say, a filename
> containing spaces as a parameter:
> 
> myprog -file "Long name"
> 
> What does sys.argv hold in this case? 

What did you get when you tried it?

I  ran:

#######test.py ######
import sys
print sys.argv

###################

python test.py foo "long name" bar

and got
['testargv.py', 'foo', 'long name', 'bar']

What did you get? Since its much less typing to try it than to ask 
the question I assume you must have had a problem with it?

Alan G
Author of the learn to program web tutor
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and got

I am specifically interested in
> whether argv[2]=="\"Long" or argv[2]=="Long name", that is, if the shell
> does the processing or I need to do it in the program. Also, I need to
> know if most environments do the same (I wouldn't want to be caught
> pants down while porting this to Windows).
> 
> Many thanks in advance for your valuable suggestions and apologies if I
> have misposted,
> 
> Vlad
> 
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> 
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