[Tutor] Pass arguments from bash script to embedded python script

[Mats Wichmann]

On 10/21/19 7:45 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

> my problem is how do I pass the argument's in the two files from the 
> bash script to the python script? It has been suggested to me that the 
> solution is an implementation of the sys/.argv function but it seems 
> that every reference that I can find goes the other way from python to 
> bash.

perhaps this will illustrate:

[mats at boulder tmp]$ cat call.sh
python3 script.py A B C
[mats at boulder tmp]$ cat script.py
import sys

print("Called with:", sys.argv)
[mats at boulder tmp]$ sh call.sh
Called with: ['script.py', 'A', 'B', 'C']


usually you'll start your processing at sys.argv[1], since [0] is the 
script name itself. That incantation often appears as:

args = sys.argv[1:]