Hi,
Thanks a lot to everyone that replied. I was missing the %* in the following line, in the File associations I just had upto the "%1". Adding %* cured my problem.
Python.File="C:\Python24\python.exe" "%1" %*
Sorry for the typos in some of my examples, every keyboard I've tried appears to have the same fault on it!
Anyway thanks a lot again,
Richard G.
Smith, Jeff wrote:
Richard,
I have no problems running your example. It would be helpful in the future ot let us know which version and variant of Python you are running. I am using the canonical (as oppose to ActiveState) Python 2.4.
From the command prompt, type
assoc .py
and you should see
.py=Python.File
Then type
ftype Python.File
which should return
Python.File="C:\Python24\python.exe" "%1" %*
If the last one isn't correct (with approriate path and assoc type associations) then you can correct it with
ftype ASSOCTYPE=PATHSTUFF
As an added bonus, you can also create a system environment variable called PATHEXT and set it to .py and you won't even have to type the .py to execute the script. I added all the following to my PATHEXT: .py;.pyw;.pys;.pyo;.pyc
While you're at it, you should also check the assoc/ftype for .pyw as
.pyw=Python.NoConFile Python.NoConFile="C:\Python24\pythonw.exe" "%1" %*
Good luck, Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard gelling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 1:41 PM
To: tutor@python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] sys.argv[1: ] help
Hi,
It is actually associated with just 'python', changed it to associate with 'pythonw' and I got nothing on the same example not even the [], so
I am assuming that 'python' is the correct one?
Liam Clarke wrote:
Yeah, right click on a .py and check if it's associated with pythonw or
python.exe
GL,
Liam Clarke
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:28:18 +0000, Richard gelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Yes, I use both Wndows XP and Linux( at work ) . I left that in by mistake I am actually just typing in
arg1,py a b c
at the windows XP command prompt
Sorry for the confusion.
Liam Clarke wrote:
Are you using XP still? I've never seen this before -
But anyhoo, I tried out just./arg1.py a b c
'c:\python23\foo.py'
as opposed to
'c:\python23\python foo.py' and
while foo.py will run, it doesn't echo to the console, as on my machine running a .py file runs it through pythonw.exe - I'd check it
out for your machine, it's probably the same. You'd need to change the association to python.exe, but that would mean that you always got a DOS box for every Python script you ran, which is annoying with
GUIs.
Erm, if you don't want to type in python each time, either change the
association or create a batch file called x or a or something that runs Python and stick it in a directory that's in your PATH system variable. Only problem with that is passing command line variables....
...might just be better to type python....
Good Luck,
Liam Clarke
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:55:54 +0000, Richard gelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
No What I get if I was to type in ./arg1.py a b c
All I get is []
If i type at the command prompt
python arg1.py a b c
I get ['a','b','c'] as expected
All the other programs and examples I have typed in work fine just by typing in the file name, I don't have to preced the file name with python, only this example. I hope this makes it clearer
Richard G.
Nick Lunt wrote:
Richard,
if you try to print sys.argv[1:] when sys.argv only contain sys.argv[0] then you are bound to get an empty list returned, [] .
Im not sure I understand the problem you think you've got but here's what happens with sys.argv for me, and it's correct.
[argl.py]
$ cat argl.py #!/usr/bin/python
import sys print sys.argv[1:]
./argl.py []
./argl.py a b c ['a', 'b', 'c']
Is that what your getting ?
Sorry for the late response, I tried all of the the suggestions, including correcting my typo of print sys[1:] and tried print sys,argv[1:], this does now work as long as I run 'python test.py fred joe' it returns all the arguments. If I try just test.py all I get is '[]' . Is there something wrong with my environmental variables in Windows XP, I would like to be able to just use the file name rather than having to type python each time. Any help would be gratefully received.
Richard G. _______________________________________________
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