Question

I am trying to execute a very simple script.
It only prints the first argument passed.

The code is

import sys
def check(argument):
  '''Open, read, and print a file.'''
  print argument

if __name__ == "__main__":
  check(sys.argv[1])

however when i execute from command line, i always get this error

C:\>sample.py myname

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\sample.py", line 7, in <module>
    check(sys.argv[1])
IndexError: list index out of range

Any help

Answer 1

This might be a Windows issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue7936