2009/6/6 Nick Burgess <burgess.nick at gmail.com>: > Is it posible to take > the regex compile from user input? To make it take an argument, like > >> csvSearch.py 10.192.55 You can use raw_inpout() see [1] for the docs user_input = raw_input('Please provide input') Greets Sander [1] http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#raw_input