On Mar 4, 8:38 am, "Mike Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you run a python file, ie. just double clicking it the only > > argument you will have will be the filename of the script. If you > > create a shortcut to the script and in the target box add your > > arguments (if you have quotation marks place them after not inside) > > you will see your arguments. fwiw you answered yourself in the third > > paragraph. > > As I mentioned I am working from the command line, not clicking on the icon. > The only difference between it working and not is the python prefix, which > is why I was thinking this is some sort of file association problem. > > I probably wasn't as clear as I could have been in the third paragraph. > > argtest.py arg1 arg2 arg3 - Does not work only get sys.argv[0] > python argtest.py arg1 arg2 arg3 - Works
That seems rather wierd, just running argtest.py arg1 arg2 arg3 I get the correct output, Python 2.5.1 from python.org but running on XP though. Potentially an issue with Vista... ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list