I'm trying to get the arguments of user input in python. I want to prompt the user to type something, and then store the words that they type in variables. I've tried doing 'sys.argv[1]' and 'cmd.argv[1]', but I just keep getting errors.
import sys
import os
print("Usage: .run <host> <time>")
cmd = input("[email protected]:~# ")
host = cmd.argv[2]
time = cmd.argv[3]
print("HOST: " + host)
print("TIME: " + time)
The return value of python's input (in 3.x.x) is a string. You'd use sys.argv if you were calling your code with the terminal, like
$ python mycode.py argument1 argument2
but as it stands, a string doesn't have .argv functionality.
The python split function might be helpful. If you need more complicated parsing, eg to enable 'argument 1' argument\ 2 being parsed into ['argument 1', 'argument 2'], you might find shlex a useful library (included with python)
