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How to pass command line arguments to your Python program

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Here is an example for quick reference. argv holds the program name at index 0. That's why we start at 1.

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys

def main():
    # print command line arguments
    for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
        print arg

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Try it out:
$ python cmdline_args.py arg1 arg2 arg3
arg1
arg2
arg3

See also:
sys module documentation
getopt module documentation
Guido van Rossum's post

Comments


#1 dayo commented on :

Thanks..


#2 bird commented on :

Works, thanks!


#3 JQ commented on :

Thanks!