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How to receive two passed cmdline parameters and access them inside a Python script? - pstein - Feb-17-2024
Sorry for this newbie question:
Assume I have have a python script myscript.py (on Windows 10).
Now I want to call this script (from command line) and pass two parameters (separrted by blanks) e.g.
myscript.py "D:\tools\input data.txt" 65656
The parameters may or may not enclosed in double quotes (as above).
How can I access these passed parameters from inside the script?
Say I want to echo/output them (=the values) simply on command line.
It would be nice to get a sample script.
Thank you
Peter
RE: How to receive two passed cmdline parameters and access them inside a Python script? - Gribouillis - Feb-17-2024
(Feb-17-2024, 08:55 AM)pstein Wrote: How can I access these passed parameters from inside the script?Use the standard library module argparse.
Say I want to echo/output them (=the values) simply on command line.
It would be nice to get a sample script.
Some examples are given in this blog post.
RE: How to receive two passed cmdline parameters and access them inside a Python script? - deanhystad - Feb-17-2024
For something this simple you can use sys.argv
import sys print(sys.argv)
Output:> python test.py "D:\tools\input data.txt" 65656
['test.py', 'D:\\tools\\input data.txt', '65656']