I used the optparse module since that is exactly what I wanted. Here is my
code:
import sys
from optparse import OptionParser
import os
parser = OptionParser()
parser.add_option("-i", "--input", dest="infile",
help="input FILE to convert", metavar="FILE")
parser.add_option("-o", "--output", dest="outfile",
help="output FILE to convert to", metavar="FILE")
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()
if not os.path.isfile(options.infile):
print "Input files does not exit...Quitting"
sys.exit()
elif os.path.isfile(options.outfile):
print "Output file exists, Remove it first"
sys.exit()
Thanks everyone.
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:14 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> look at the OptParse module, with this u can easily realize such things.
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-optparse.html
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:55:07PM -0400, Brain Stormer wrote:
> > I have a python program which works fine when run using idle but I would
> > like call the program from the terminal.
> >
> > python test.py -i inputfile -o outputfile
> >
> > I tried with raw_input but that only works in idle. Can this be
> achieved?
> > Thanks
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