I recently faced a peculiar o/p. My objective is to remove the command name(my script name) from sys.argv[0]. I coded like this
import urllib import sys print "\n\n\t\tlipun4u[at]gmail[dot]com" print "\t\t------------------------" apppath = sys.argv[0].split("/") appname = apppath[len(apppath)-1] print appname if len(sys.argv) not in [2,3]: print "Usage : " + appname + " <url> [options]" print "e.g. : " + appname + "www.google.com --verbose" print "\n\t[option]" print "\t\t--verbose/-V for verbose output" print "\t\t-r for recursive scan" sys.exit(1) site = appname.replace("http://","").rsplit("/",1)[0] site = "http://" + site.lower() print site It showed the required o/p in the IDLE here is the o/p lipun4u[at]gmail[dot]com ------------------------ linkscan.py Usage : linkscan.py <url> [options] e.g. : linkscan.pywww.google.com --verbose [option] --verbose/-V for verbose output -r for recursive scan Traceback (most recent call last): File "I:/Python26/linkscan.py", line 18, in <module> sys.exit(1) SystemExit: 1 But in command prompt the o/p is still faulty lipun4u[at]gmail[dot]com ------------------------ I:\Python26\linkscan.py Usage : I:\Python26\linkscan.py <url> [options] e.g. : I:\Python26\linkscan.pywww.google.com --verbose [option] --verbose/-V for verbose output -r for recursive scan I:\Python26> regards asit dhal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list