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How to Get Command Line Arguments

The sys.argv object is a list containing arguments passed to the current script.

import sys
print(sys.argv)

If this code is invoked using python test.py hello world, the result would be:

['test.py', 'hello', 'world']

Remember that the first item in the list is always the name of the script or program, thus arguments are found in sys.argv[1:]:

args = sys.argv[1:]
print(args)

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