Accessing command line arguments in Python

Published: 10 April 2023
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If you need to make a very simple command-line interface and it doesn't need to be friendly, you can read sys.argv to manually process the arguments coming into your program.

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00:00 Passing command-line arguments
00:18 Function arguments vs command-line arguments
00:32 Python accepts whatever command-line arguments we give it
00:55 Where are command-line arguments stored?
01:28 Accessing command-line arguments
02:05 Python provides all command-line arguments as strings
02:57 Command-line arguments are stored in the sys.argv list


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