Question

Newbie at Python and maybe I’m not stating the question right, but how do I cast a passed arg to string in python?

Here is what I’m trying:

#!/usr/bin/python
# Python Wrapper to Call XMLRPC service

import xmlrpclib
import sys  

# Set the Server
servAddr = "http://127.0.0.1/xmlrpc.server.php"

# Start the Client
client = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(servAddr)

for arg in sys.argv:
    id = str(arg)
    print client.service.setId(id) # Throws long error
    # print client.service.setId('123') # Hard coded works
    #print arg # prints the id passed

Answer 1

The values from sys.argv already are strings. I think the problem is that you are passing sys.argv[0] which is the script name. Try this:

for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
    print client.service.setId(arg)