User input and command line arguments

Question

How do I have a Python script that a) can accept user input and how do I make it b) read in arguments if run from the command line?

Answer 1

You can get user input using the input method in python 3 and raw_input in python 2 e.g.: 

data = input("Enter your name") # for python 3

data = raw_input("Enter your name") # for python 2

For command line arguments you can use the sys.argv like this:

import sys

print(sys.argv)

Note that sys.argv is a list with the first element as the file name and rest of the elements are arguments passed by the user.