[Tutor] Arguments from the command line

[Mark Weil]

I think you're looking for this:

http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html

you'll also want to read up on sys.argv

http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#sys.argv



On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:48 AM, aug dawg <augdawg09 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've seen Python programs that can be activated from the command line. For
> example:
>
> hg
>
> This displays a list of commands for the Mercurial revision control system.
> But another command is this:
>
> hg commit "This is a commit name"
>
> Mercurial is written in Python. I know that commit is a function that
> commits to a repo, but what command does the program use in order to get the
> commit name, like "This is a commit name" (This would make a commit with
> "This is a commit name" as the commit name)
>
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