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So I have a code that prints out the sys.argv when the program is ran. How can I parse

$ python ./arch.py install *

to show ["./arch.py","install","*"]
Instead of ["./arch.py","install",#other files in directory]?

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Wildcards are interpreted by the shell before your program gets a chance to touch them. If you want them passed as literals, then escape them so that they're not interpreted as wildcards:

$ python ./arch.py install \*
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