Terry Reedy wrote: > On 2/4/2010 3:55 PM, Alan Biddle wrote: >> Just finishing my first Python (2.6 on Win XP) program, which is >> working fine. My "Duh?" question is about how to run it from within >> IDLE and pass it command line arguments. No problem using sys.argv >> from a Windows command line, but I have missed how you can do that >> from within IDLE, which complicates development and debugging. > > I presume you mean edit, F5-run, see result in shell window. > Set sys.argv in test function or __name__=='__main__' > In 3.1 idle shell: > >>>> import sys >>>> sys.argv > [''] >>>> sys.argv = ['abc','dev'] >>>> sys.argv > ['abc', 'dev'] > > I did not know it was writable, either, until I tried it. > As a solution, however, that sucks, wouldn't you agree?
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