python launch script command line argument code example

Example 1: python argument command line

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys

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

Example 2: shell script to run python script with arguments

#shell command
>> python python_script.py var1 var2

# To access the variables inside the script
import sys
print sys.argv[0] # prints python_script.py
print sys.argv[1] # prints var1
print sys.argv[2] # prints var2