It is not at all clear what the OP meant (even after some back-and-forth in the comments), but here are two answers to possible interpretations of the question:
Use raw_input
in Python 2.x, and input
in Python 3. (These are built in, so you don't need to import anything to use them; you just have to use the right one for your version of python.)
For example:
user_input = raw_input("Some input please: ")
More details can be found here.
So, for example, you might have a script that looks like this
# First, do some work, to show -- as requested -- that
# the user input doesn't need to come first.
from __future__ import print_function
var1 = 'tok'
var2 = 'tik'+var1
print(var1, var2)
# Now ask for input
user_input = raw_input("Some input please: ") # or `input("Some...` in python 3
# Now do something with the above
print(user_input)
If you saved this in foo.py
, you could just call the script from the command line, it would print out tok tiktok
, then ask you for input. You could enter bar baz
(followed by the enter key) and it would print bar baz
. Here's what that would look like:
$ python foo.py
tok tiktok
Some input please: bar baz
bar baz
Here, $
represents the command-line prompt (so you don't actually type that), and I hit Enter
after typing bar baz
when it asked for input.
Suppose you have a script named foo.py
and want to call it with arguments bar
and baz
from the command line like
$ foo.py bar baz
(Again, $
represents the command-line prompt.) Then, you can do that with the following in your script:
import sys
arg1 = sys.argv[1]
arg2 = sys.argv[2]
Here, the variable arg1
will contain the string 'bar'
, and arg2
will contain 'baz'
. The object sys.argv
is just a list containing everything from the command line. Note that sys.argv[0]
is the name of the script. And if, for example, you just want a single list of all the arguments, you would use sys.argv[1:]
.