sys.argv[1] meaning in script

Question

I\'m currently teaching myself Python and was just wondering (In reference to my example below) in simplified terms what the sys.argv[1] represents. Is it simpl

Answer 1

Just adding to Frederic's answer, for example if you call your script as follows:

./myscript.py foo bar

sys.argv[0] would be "./myscript.py" sys.argv[1] would be "foo" and sys.argv[2] would be "bar" ... and so forth.

In your example code, if you call the script as follows ./myscript.py foo , the script's output will be "Hello there foo".