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How to pass command line arguments to your Python program

Date: 2007-12-20  |   Modified: 2008-09-09  |   Tags: python   |   1 Comment

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

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#1 dayo commented on 2008-09-12:

Thanks..

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