From a396463db3c6e3f06cdba37395c1aa4a99ebf6fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "R. David Murray" Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:11:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] #10559: provide instructions for accessing sys.argv when first mentioned. --- Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst index f397f032eb2..20fae9ac262 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