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

Why not:

python foo.py 1,2,3,4 5,6,7,8  

Much cleaner than trying to eval python and doesn't require your user to know python format.

import sys

list1 = sys.argv[1].split(',')
list2 = [int(c) for c in sys.argv[2].split(',')]  # if you want ints