command line input formatting python code example

Example 1: how to get command line arguments in python

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys

print 'Number of arguments:', len(sys.argv), 'arguments.'
print 'Argument List:', str(sys.argv)

Example 2: how to print the 3erd character of an input in python

exampleString = "This is an example sentence"
print(exampleString[2])