[Tutor] Pass variable on command line

[Terry Carroll]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, jason wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a situation where I have 2 lists
> 
> List1 = ['blue', 'red', green']
> List2 = ['red', 'yellow', 'orange']
> 
> And I would like to pass the list name on the command line like so
> 
> ./test.py List1
> 
> I know I can get the argument using sys.argv[1]
> 
> But how can I then use the values in that list inside my program?

If you must do this, make a dictionary of the lists:

 d = {"List1": List1, "List2": List2}

and index into it from your argument:

 l = d[sys.argv[1]]