On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:48 PM, aug dawg <augdaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've seen Python programs that can be activated from the command line. For > example: > hg > > This displays a list of commands for the Mercurial revision control system. > But another command is this: > hg commit "This is a commit name" > Mercurial is written in Python. I know that commit is a function that > commits to a repo, but what command does the program use in order to get the > commit name, like "This is a commit name" (This would make a commit with > "This is a commit name" as the commit name) >
sys.argv is a list of all arguments from the command line. However, you'll rarely deal with it directly, there's various modules that deal with handling arguments. I believe the current one is argparse: http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html#module-argparse Hugo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
