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What does the sys module do in python?

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What does the sys module do in python?
and what is sys.argv?

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Re: What does the sys module do in python?

Look here

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Re: What does the sys module do in python?

That's exactly where I checked. I don't understand what the documentation says..
More specifically I don't understand this
"sys.argv¶

The list of command line arguments passed to a Python script. argv[0] is the script name (it is operating system dependent whether this is a full pathname or not). If the command was executed using the -c command line option to the interpreter, argv[0] is set to the string '-c'. If no script name was passed to the Python interpreter, argv[0] is the empty string."

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Re: What does the sys module do in python?

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Re: What does the sys module do in python?

Maybe a little example will help ...

python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text)
import sys
 
args = sys.argv
 
print(args)
print( "Source  file: %s" % args[0] )
# use any of these arguments in your code
print( "Argument one: %s" % args[1] )
print( "Argument two: %s" % args[2] )
 
 
"""
my output after saving this code as sysargs1.py and 
entering a few arguments on the command line -->
['D:/Python25/Bull/sysargs1.py', 'myarg1', 'myarg2']
Source  file: D:/Python25/Bull/sysargs1.py
Argument one: myarg1
Argument two: myarg2
"""
import sys

args = sys.argv

print(args)
print( "Source  file: %s" % args[0] )
# use any of these arguments in your code
print( "Argument one: %s" % args[1] )
print( "Argument two: %s" % args[2] )


"""
my output after saving this code as sysargs1.py and 
entering a few arguments on the command line -->
['D:/Python25/Bull/sysargs1.py', 'myarg1', 'myarg2']
Source  file: D:/Python25/Bull/sysargs1.py
Argument one: myarg1
Argument two: myarg2
"""

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Re: What does the sys module do in python?

So for the last two to have values, is it compulsory for the program to be run via command line?

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Re: What does the sys module do in python?

You can run it with module subprocess as well

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import subprocess
child = subprocess.Popen("sysargs1.py myarg1 myrag2", shell=True)
import subprocess
child = subprocess.Popen("sysargs1.py myarg1 myrag2", shell=True)

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Re: What does the sys module do in python?

What does that module do?

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Re: What does the sys module do in python?

It allows your program to launch other programs and communicate with them.

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Re: What does the sys module do in python?

thanks

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