(now that I've posted in the wrong flipping newsgroup the first thing, here's my question to the lovely python folks)
I've taken a year off (or so) using Python and the first thing I run into utterly stumped me. Been too long and none of the searches I've done seems to have helped any. Basically, I'm trying to create a little script which will make a new directory, using the argument passed to it to give the directory a name: #!/usr/bin/python import sys, os newDirectory = str(sys.argv[1:]) currentPath = str(os.getcwd()) create = currentPath + '/' + newDirectory print create # os.mkdir(create) Now, in a perfect universe I would get an output something like the following (if I run the script with the argument 'python': /Volumes/Home/myuser/python However, Python still hangs on to all the fluff and prints out something else: /Volumes/Home/myuser/['python'] I know there must be some way to convert the argument to a 'normal' variable, but it escapes me how to do so. Any pointers? Thanks! tom -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
