How to pass an entire list as command line argument in Python?

Question

I was trying to pass two lists containing integers as arguments to a python code. But sys.argv[i] gets the parameters as a list of string.

Input would

Answer 1

I tested this on my end, and my input looks like this:

python foo.py "[1,2,3,4]" "[5,6,7,8,9]"

I'm doing the following to convert the two params of interest:

import ast
import sys

list1 = ast.literal_eval(sys.argv[1])
list2 = ast.literal_eval(sys.argv[2])