Johan Ekh wrote: > Thanks, > James I will try your suggestion! > Robert, what mean with "interactively" is that i would like to create an > array in the ipython shell, e.g. with m_i = array([1.0, 2.0, 3.0]) or > by reading a file with values etc., and then execute my program with > "myprog -m m_i" and thus pass the array "m_i" to my program. > > This is just an example. I would like to pass several arrays. My program > will be wrapped inside a loop and the arrays are updated > in each loop. > The bottom line is that there is no "natural" way to pass Python objects through the command line, so you will need to find a natural way to represent the objects as character strings, and then extend the optparse module to recognize that type.
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