John Bokma <j...@castleamber.com> writes: > Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > >> On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:28:17 -0500, Steve Holden wrote: >> >>> Terry Reedy wrote: >>>> On 2/4/2010 3:55 PM, Alan Biddle wrote: >>>>> Just finishing my first Python (2.6 on Win XP) program, which is >>>>> working fine. My "Duh?" question is about how to run it from within >>>>> IDLE and pass it command line arguments. No problem using sys.argv >>>>> from a Windows command line, but I have missed how you can do that >>>>> from within IDLE, which complicates development and debugging. >>>> >>>> I presume you mean edit, F5-run, see result in shell window. Set >>>> sys.argv in test function or __name__=='__main__' In 3.1 idle shell: >>>> >>>>>>> import sys >>>>>>> sys.argv >>>> [''] >>>>>>> sys.argv = ['abc','dev'] >>>>>>> sys.argv >>>> ['abc', 'dev'] >>>> >>>> I did not know it was writable, either, until I tried it. >>>> >>> As a solution, however, that sucks, wouldn't you agree? >> >> [scratches head] >> >> Do you mean setting sys.argv as a solution sucks? No, I don't, I think it >> is grand. If sys.argv was unmodifiable, *that* would suck. >> >> Or do you mean that trying it as a solution to the problem of answering >> the OP's question sucks? Well, no, experimentation is good for answering >> these sorts of questions, and I can't assume that the documentation will >> cover every imaginable use-case, or that users will find it. In the >> absence of any documentation stating otherwise, I would have assumed that >> sys.argv was an ordinary list which you can modify at will, but having >> been caught out on faulty assumptions before, I would try it and see >> before commenting publicly. > > I guess that Terry means that a solution that makes it possible to > specify in IDLE *outside* of the Python code the arguments would be > better. Hardcoding the command line arguments isn't something I would do > for testing.
Oops, that should've been Steve, my apologies. -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
