On 11/01/2011 10:19 AM, Jose Amoreira wrote:
HiOn Tuesday, November 01, 2011 01:55:18 PM Joel Goldstick wrote:
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Jefferson Ragot<jbr5...@gmail.com> wrote:
In a Vista command prompt if I typed this:
>>> python somescript.py filename
Will sys.argv[1] return a valid path or just the filename?
If it just returns the filename, is there a simple way to get the path?
Here's the contents of my somescript.py:
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import sys
for index,arg in enumerate(sys.argv):
print index, arg
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Here is its output:
mu:python$ python somescript.py match.py
0 somescript.py
1 match.py
mu:python$ python somescript.py somescript.py stripaccents.py
0 somescript.py
1 somescript.py
2 stripaccents.py
mu:python$ python somescript.py Hello, how do you do?
0 somescript.py
1 Hello,
2 how
3 do
4 you
5 do?
mu:python$ python somescript.py /home/amoreira/public_html/index.php
0 somescript.py
1 /home/amoreira/public_html/index.php
mu:python$ python somescript.py /unexistent/directory/unexistent_file.txt
0 somescript.py
1 /unexistent/directory/unexistent_file.txt
So, sys.argv has nothing to do with files or paths, it just stores whatever
you write in the command line. I don't have a vista system on wich to try
things, but I'm pretty sure it's the same.
sysargv[1] returns the text following your script.
You can find the current working directory with this:
http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.getcwd
No. sys.argv[1:] (note the colon) does return (not quite "return", since it's
not a function call but ok) the text following your script. sys.argv[1] only
"returns" the *first* word after your script (in the invocation command)
Cheers
Ze Amoreira
More precisely, sys.argv[1:] yields a list whose items are the words on
the command line. it does not reproduce the command line as a single
string.
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DaveA
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