help with a script to determine length of an argument

[sparkz_alot]

You still need to correct the other mistakes, even with a try/except.

The sys.argv is going to return either a one element list or a string. By using sys.argv[1] you will receive an error:

Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Python/Samples/scratch.py", line 3, in <module>
    file_loc = sys.argv[1]
IndexError: list index out of range

Remember in Python, a list starts with '0', not a '1'

So:

file_loc = sys.argv[0]
print("file_loc = ", file_loc)
print("file_loc type = ", type(file_loc))

returns:

Output:
file_loc =  C:/Python/Samples/scratch.py
file_loc type =  <class 'str'>
Length of 'arg' is:  28

and:

file_loc = sys.argv
print("file_loc = ", file_loc)
print("file_loc type = ", type(file_loc))

returns:

Output:
"C:\Python 3.5\python.exe" C:/Python/Samples/scratch.py
file_loc =  ['C:/Python/Samples/scratch.py']
file_loc type =  <class 'list'>
Length of 'arg' is:  1