Question

I am writing code in Python that I should run with the command line and when I call the script i should give some arguments that I would use in the code. What can I use to achieve that?

To run the script it would be something like this:

python myscript.py s1 s2 s4

where s1, s2 and s4 would be the arguments that I would use in my code.

Answer 1

Quick dirty way

import sys
s1, s2, s4 = sys.argv[1:4]

(sys.argv[0] is the name of the script)

For more flexibility you can use the argparse module