How to send a file as an argument when running another file in Python

[se7en]

I have this file x.py and I need to execute it with y.met as an
argument. Unsure of syntax etc...

-Python newbie

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

I have this file x.py and I need to execute it with y.met as an
argument. Unsure of syntax etc...

import sys
print sys.argv

 

[Nuff Said]

I have this file x.py and I need to execute it with y.met as an
argument. Unsure of syntax etc...

-Python newbie

Use:

import sys

filename = sys.argv[1]
print filename

Usage:

python x.py y.met

(sys.argv is a list where the first entry (i.e. sys.argv[0]) is
the name of your Python script and the other entries are the
command line arguments which you passed to your script.)

HTH / Nuff