Question
Asked By – Jimmy
I know that I can run a python script from my bash script using the following:
python python_script.py
But what about if I wanted to pass a variable / argument to my python script from my bash script. How can I do that?
Basically bash will work out a filename and then python will upload it, but I need to send the filename from bash to python when I call it.
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Answer
To execute a python script in a bash script you need to call the same command that you would within a terminal. For instance
> python python_script.py var1 var2
To access these variables within python you will need
import sys
print(sys.argv[0]) # prints python_script.py
print(sys.argv[1]) # prints var1
print(sys.argv[2]) # prints var2
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