James Stroud wrote: > import sys > > try: > arg1 = sys.argv[1] > except IndexError: > print "This script takes an argument, you boob!" > sys.exit(1)
Also possible, to guarantee that exactly one argument was given: try: arg1, = sys.argv except ValueError: print "This script takes an argument, you boob!" sys.exit(1) If you want to get, say, 3 arguments, just change that line to: arg1, arg2, arg3 = sys.argv > OR, way better: See the optparse module. Definitely. Though depending on what kind of arguments your script takes, you still may need to deal with the args that optparse returns. STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
