Pycharm and sys argv arguments

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I am trying to debug a script which takes command line arguments as an input  Arguments are text files in the same directory  Script gets file names from sys argv list  My problem is I cannot launch the script with arguments in pycharm   I have tried to enter arguments into  Script parameters  field in  Run     Edit configuration  menu like so   -s file1 txt   -s file2 txt    But it did not work  How do I launch my script with arguments   P S  I am on Ubuntu

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Add the following to the top of your Python file    import sys  sys argv           file         arg1        arg2      Now  you can simply right click on the Python script

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I believe it s included even in Edu version  Just right click the solid green arrow button  Run  and choose  Add parameters

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In PyCharm the parameters are added in the Script Parameters as you did but  they are enclosed in double quotes    and without specifying the Interpreter flags like -s  Those flags are specified in the Interpreter options box   Script Parameters box contents     file1 txt   file2 txt    Interpeter flags   -s   Or  visually     Then  with a simple test file to evaluate   if   name         main         import sys     print sys argv    We get the parameters we provided  with sys argv 0  holding the script name of course       Path to current folder test py    file1 txt    file2 txt

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The first parameter is the name of the script you want to run  From the second parameter onwards it is the the parameters that you want to pass from your command line  Below is a test script   from sys import argv  script  first  second   argv print  Script is   script print  first is   first print  second is   second   And here is how you pass the input parameters    Path to your script   First Parameter   Second Parameter   Lets say that the Path to your script is  home my folder test py   the output will be like    Script is  home my folder test py first is First Parameter second is Second Parameter   Hope this helps as it took me sometime to figure out input parameters are comma separated

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On PyCharm Community or Professional Edition 2019 1     From the menu bar click Run - gt  Edit Configurations Add your arguments in the Parameters textbox  for example file2 txt file3 txt  or --myFlag myArg --anotherFlag mySecondArg  Click Apply Click OK

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Notice that for some unknown reason  it is not possible to add command line arguments in the PyCharm Edu version  It can be only done in Professional and Community editions

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It works in the edu version for me  It was not necessary for me to specify a -s option in the interpreter options

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For the sake of others who are wondering on how to get to this window  Here s how   You can access this by clicking on Select Run Debug Configurations  to the left of   and going to the Edit Configurations  A gif provided for clarity

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In addition to Jim s answer  sorry not enough rep points to make a comment   just wanted to point out that the arguments specified in PyCharm do not have special characters escaped  unlike what you would do on the command line  So  whereas on the command line you d do    python mediadb py   media paul New  Volume Users paul Documents spinmaster    png   the PyCharm parameter would be      media paul New Volume Users paul Documents spinmaster   png

[python] Pycharm and sys.argv arguments

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