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

You can also do the following:

say, you have foo.py :

import json
import sys
data = json.loads(sys.argv[1])
print data, type(data)

Then if you run the above as : python foo.py "[1,2,3]"

Output:

[1, 2, 3]