python: sys.argv[0] meaning in official documentation

Question

Quoting from docs.python.org:

\"sys.argv The list of command line arguments passed to a Python script. argv[0] is the script name (it is op

Answer 1

When Python is invoked as python script.py then sys.argv[0] == 'script.py'. When you invoke python -c 'import sys; print sys.argv' then sys.argv[0] == '-c' indicating the script body was passed as a string on the command line.