From: R. David Murray Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:11:40 +0000 (+0000) Subject: #10559: provide instructions for accessing sys.argv when first mentioned. X-Git-Tag: v3.2b2~45 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a396463db3c6e3f06cdba37395c1aa4a99ebf6fb;p=python #10559: provide instructions for accessing sys.argv when first mentioned. --- diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst index f397f032eb..20fae9ac26 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst @@ -78,8 +78,9 @@ Argument Passing ---------------- When known to the interpreter, the script name and additional arguments -thereafter are passed to the script in the variable ``sys.argv``, which is a -list of strings. Its length is at least one; when no script and no arguments +thereafter are turned into a list of strings and assigned to the ``argv`` +variable in the ``sys`` module. You can access this list by executing ``import +sys``. The length of the list is at least one; when no script and no arguments are given, ``sys.argv[0]`` is an empty string. When the script name is given as ``'-'`` (meaning standard input), ``sys.argv[0]`` is set to ``'-'``. When :option:`-c` *command* is used, ``sys.argv[0]`` is set to ``'-c'``. When