I highly recommend argparse which comes with Python 2.7 and later.. The argparse module reduces boiler plate code and makes your code more robust, because the module handles all …

In Python, how can we find out the command line arguments that were provided for a script, and process them? Related background reading: What does "sys.argv[1]" mean? (What is …

The goals here are to be terse, each argument parsed by a single line, the args line up for readability, the code is simple and doesn't depend on any special modules (only os + sys), …

Oct 12, 2016 · Off course, in a real script, you won't hard-code the command-line options and will call parser.parse_args() (without argument) instead. It will make argparse take the sys.args list …

sys.arg is a list of command line parameters. You need to actually pass command line parameters to the script to populate this list. Do this either in your IDE's project settings or by running like …

Apr 4, 2014 · The argparse module makes it easy to write user-friendly command-line interfaces. The program defines what arguments it requires, and argparse will figure out how to parse …

Aug 8, 2018 · For an example of object comparison mayhem, try removing the int() call in section 6.1.1. of the Python tutorial Fibonacci code and you'll get an infinite loop, since the while loop …

@Kevin Bell, the test for __name__ == "__main__" will return true if the script is run from the command line, rather than imported in the python interpreter, or another script. The design is …

Aug 31, 2011 · For a posixy feel, you shouldn't only provide the standard command line options, both short and long, but also, if possible, adhere to reading from the standard input (or the …

Apr 24, 2010 · python script.py 001 002 245 568 python script.py some unexpected argument python script.py 0001 python script.py 02 ...first one - because of more than one "numeric" …