Re: Question About Command line arguments

2011-06-10 Thread Mark Phillips
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Kurt Smith wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Mark Phillips > wrote: > > How do I write my script so it picks up argument from the output of > commands > > that pipe input into my script? > > def main(): >import

Re: Question About Command line arguments

2011-06-10 Thread Mark Phillips
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:41 AM, MRAB wrote: > On 10/06/2011 18:21, Mark Phillips wrote: > >> I have a script that processes command line arguments >> >> def main(argv=None): >> syslog.syslog("Sparkler stared processing") >> if argv is None:

Question About Command line arguments

2011-06-10 Thread Mark Phillips
I have a script that processes command line arguments def main(argv=None): syslog.syslog("Sparkler stared processing") if argv is None: argv = sys.argv if len(argv) != 2: syslog.syslog(usage()) else: r = parseMsg(sys.argv[1]) syslog.syslog(r) ret

Re: How to convert a string into a list

2010-10-05 Thread Mark Phillips
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I learned a lot from them! Mark On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Arnaud Delobelle > wrote: > > MRAB writes: > >> On 05/10/2010 02:10, Mark Phillips wrote: > >>> I

How to convert a string into a list

2010-10-04 Thread Mark Phillips
I have the following string - "['1', '2']" that I need to convert into a list of integers - [1,2]. The string can contain from 1 to many integers. Eg "['1', '7', '4',..,'n']" (values are not sequential) What would be the best way to do this? I don't want to use eval, as the string is coming fr