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

To pass arguments to your python script while running a script via command line

python create_thumbnail.py test1.jpg test2.jpg

here, script name - create_thumbnail.py, argument 1 - test1.jpg, argument 2 - test2.jpg

With in the create_thumbnail.py script i use

sys.argv[1:]

which give me the list of arguments i passed in command line as ['test1.jpg', 'test2.jpg']