Re: [Tutor] Arguments from the command line

2010-09-06 Thread aug dawg
Alrighty! Thanks, everyone! On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 02:08:27 am Hugo Arts wrote: > > > sys.argv is a list of all arguments from the command line. However, > > you'll rarely deal with it directly, there's various modules that > > deal with hand

Re: [Tutor] Arguments from the command line

2010-09-06 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 02:08:27 am Hugo Arts wrote: > sys.argv is a list of all arguments from the command line. However, > you'll rarely deal with it directly, there's various modules that > deal with handling arguments. I believe the current one is argparse: > http://docs.python.org/library/argparse

Re: [Tutor] Arguments from the command line

2010-09-06 Thread bob gailer
On 9/6/2010 11:48 AM, aug dawg wrote: I've seen Python programs that can be activated from the command line. For example: hg This displays a list of commands for the Mercurial revision control system. But another command is this: hg commit "This is a commit name" Mercurial is written in P

Re: [Tutor] Arguments from the command line

2010-09-06 Thread Mark Weil
I think you're looking for this: http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html you'll also want to read up on sys.argv http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#sys.argv On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:48 AM, aug dawg wrote: > I've seen Python programs that can be activated from the command line. For

Re: [Tutor] Arguments from the command line

2010-09-06 Thread Hugo Arts
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:48 PM, aug dawg wrote: > I've seen Python programs that can be activated from the command line. For > example: > hg > > This displays a list of commands for the Mercurial revision control system. > But another command is this: > hg commit "This is a commit name" > Mercuria