[Tutor] How to pass command line variables to this python code...

Christian Witts cwitts at compuscan.co.za
Wed Jul 15 08:25:11 CEST 2009


vince spicer wrote:
> First off, selenium is a great tool and the python driver is very powerful
>
> there are numerous ways to access cli variables,
>
> the quickest
>
> import sys
> print sys.srgv
>
> sys.argv will it output a array of all command line args
>
> ./selenium-google-test.py yankees
> will out put:
>
> ['selenium-google-test.py', 'yankees']
>
> so
>
> args = sys.argv
>
> args[0] == 'yankees'
> True
That would be false, the first argument (list index zero) is the script 
name.  You would need to do
args = sys.argv[1:]
if you want to dump the filename from the list.

-- 
Kind Regards,
Christian Witts




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