Get arguments
Returned as a list, index 0 being the path + filename of the python file that has been run
import sys
command_line_arguments = sys.argv
#print("This is the name of the program:", sys.argv[0])
#print(command_line_arguments) #E.g. ['C:\\MyFolder\\my_app.py', 'abc', 'xyz]Get argument and its value
This example forces to lower case, remove .lower() if you don’t want that
found_it = False
for argument in command_line_arguments:
if (argument.lower().find("my_argument_text=") == 0): #0=does string start with, -1=not found
found_it = True
argument_value = argument[argument.lower().index("my_argument_text=")+17:]
break
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