Command line arguments in Python

for arg in sys.argv:
    print(arg)

sys.argv[0] is the python script name.

The script name can be absolute or relative depending on how the script was started:

• python3 some.py

  sys.argv[0] will be "some.py"

• python3 /home/masbicudo/some.py

  sys.argv[0] will be "/home/masbicudo/some.py"

Prerequsite

import sys