Re: Converting argv to variable

[Tim Chase]

  newDirectory = str(sys.argv[1:])
[cut]
  Now, in a perfect universe I would get an output something
  like the following (if I run the script with the argument
  'python':
 
  /Volumes/Home/myuser/python
 
  However, Python still hangs on to all the fluff and prints
  out something else:
 
  /Volumes/Home/myuser/['python']

Your newDirectory = ... line is asking for a slice of a
list, which returns a list.  Python then dutifully converts
that list to a string representation and tacks that onto
your string/path.

What you want is sys.argv[1] (the first argument) not
sys.argv[1:] (a list of all but the first argv--namely, all
the arguments as [0] is the name of your python script)

-tkc





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Re: Converting argv to variable

[Klaus Alexander Seistrup]

Tom skrev:

 newDirectory = str(sys.argv[1:])

Try

newDir = '/'.join(sys.argv[1:])
or
newDir = sys.argv[1]
or
for newDir in sys.argv[1:]:
:

or something along those lines, depending on how you wish to 
interpret the commandline.

Cheers, 

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Re: Converting argv to variable

[Terry Reedy]

tgiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 
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 (now that I've posted in the wrong flipping newsgroup the first thing,
 here's my question to the lovely python folks)

 I've taken a year off (or so) using Python and the first thing I run
 into utterly stumped me. Been too long and none of the searches I've
 done seems to have helped any.
 Basically, I'm trying to create a little script which will make a new
 directory, using the argument passed to it to give the directory a
 name:

 #!/usr/bin/python
 import sys, os
 newDirectory = str(sys.argv[1:])

If you are only going to make one dir at a time, newDir = sys.argv[1]

 currentPath =  str(os.getcwd())
 create =  currentPath + '/' + newDirectory

os.path has platform-independent function to do this

tjr



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