On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 9:02 AM, BartC <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > > I notice that when it comes to reading command-line arguments, then Python's > sys.argv presents them as a list, not one long string. > > And the list is just a series of strings, so needing to know whether any > parameter was a number or whatever obviously wasn't a problem. It just makes > each item into a string (actually that might be a better default than mine). > > This is a very similar issue to reading items from a line of user input. > > So why doesn't sys.argv just return a single string if a line is so easy to > parse?
Because the OS provides a series of strings, not just one string. When you exec to a process, you provide multiple arguments, not a single combined string. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
